{"id":3261,"date":"2003-01-06T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2003-01-06T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2003-01-06T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2003-01-06T15:26:32","slug":"squandered_symp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/06\/squandered_symp.html","title":{"rendered":"Squandered sympathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I quoted below <\/a>a bit of Lileks’ comments on the terrorist attacks in Israel yesterday — 18 dead (plus the two suicide bombers, of course), 100 wounded. <\/p>\n

What I find interesting is that his feelings about it — a barely-restrained fury — not only echo my own, but that I found just the same thing <\/a>on SDB’s page:<\/p>\n

But increasingly I’m finding myself feeling <\/i>as if the world would be better off if someone went in and shot every damned one of them and piled the lot in an unmarked grave. After reading about yet another Palestinian atrocity, I find myself thinking, “Fuck it. Nuke Ramallah. Then nuke Nablus. And if that doesn’t help, bulldoze Gaza. And once that’s done, put all fifty surviving Palestinians on a freighter, tow it out to sea, and let them become someone else’s problem.”
\nI know that’s wrong. I know it could never happen, and that it will never happen, and that it should<\/u> never happen, and I would never actually advocate anything like that. But what I’m finding is that every time I read about a Palestinian being killed by the Israelis, my first emotional reaction is, “Good riddance.” I’ve reached the point where I feel nothing at all when I read about them dying. I have reached the point where I don’t care at all, not even slightly, about their pain and hardship. They have ceased to be persons to me. I’m no longer even interested in hearing their side of the story.<\/p>\n

I said interesting<\/i>. I shoud have said scary<\/i>.<\/p>\n

At least scary to me. And, if there are any sane people among the Palestinians, to them, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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