Reply #5: Looks similar to me

[Asgaya Dihi]

A whole population walled in, resources all on one side of the border and not on the other, food used as a weapon, and the http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043795.html">recent riots and past military incursions all lend some comparison to them.

The same? Of course not, but the apartheid comparison isn't the "same" either. Just a similar event in ways. For one thing this has gone on a lot longer which leaves more room for a history of conflict. Contrary to what the other person who responded claimed though there WAS the Warsaw uprising which might again be comparable in ways. No, not the same, but similar. A people without many resources resisting. Same as the French resistance did, and others. The difference between terrorism and freedom fighter too often lies in not much more than which side we have more sympathy for. And no, that doesn't excuse car bombs, no more than it excuses the riots and occasional killings on the part of the Israelis such as in the article above. Looking at both sides instead of just ones helps to understand it some though. Weak people eventually strike out however they can, anyone might when they no longer feel they have anything left to lose.

I don't care what anyone else does or what you assume anyones urges to be. If you wonder at what *I* do I've a long posting history to check. If you want to assume because you think someone *else* does something that's nothing that in any way concerns me.