...is terror excused, justified, or understood as a reaction to occupation - or as a legitimate form of self defense - by otherwise rational and decent people?
Can't answer that one, right?
Duh.
Also, calls for lifting an arms blockade against Hamas is implicit acceptance of terrorism. There's really no other way to look at it. It's not as if folks who are calling for the lifting of the blockade are saying the blockade is perfectly legit and correct, and that Israel has a right to stop Hamas from arming itself with more lethal weaponry. None are saying that they'd be okay with Israel allowing all other goods in and out while keeping the arms blockade in place. Rather, they're against the blockade altogether. Let Hamas arm itself to the teeth and do whatever they wish. What other way is there to see it than as being a pro-terror position? It's not as if the same people against the blockade are in any way condemning or pleading with Hamas to stop (see Amira Hass' article below). There's zero pressure from these people against Hamas to stop what they do.
Hass wrote about this near the end of this article...
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-sanctity-of-the-soaring-qassam-1.351249In the binary thinking of those who oppose the Israeli occupation (Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners ), public criticism of the tactics used in the struggle of an occupied and dispossessed people is taboo. It is as if criticism would create symmetry between the attacker and the attacked. To a large extent, this taboo has been broken with regard to the Palestinian Authority: Many opponents of the occupation have no qualms about portraying the PA as a collaborator, or at least as the captive of its senior officials' private interests. But when it comes to Hamas' use of arms, silence falls. As if there were sanctity in the Qassam soaring high into the sky, only to fall amid the clamor of Israeli propaganda.
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So for all those who demonstrated in support of the Gazans when they were trapped under Israeli fire, all those planners of past and future flotillas, this is your moment to raise your voices and say clearly: The Qassams merely feed Israel's madness. It is not the Qassams that will ensure the Palestinians, both in and out of Gaza, a life of dignity. It is not the Qassams that will topple the Israeli walls around the world's largest prison camp.
If for no other reason, folks who say they're pro-Palestinian should be all over Hamas for their terrorist acts so that their crazy neighbor to the east, Israel, doesn't strike back and make things worse. The fact is, they're hypocrites. This is AMIRA HASS saying it, not me. They remain silent WRT terror vs. Israelis b/c deep inside they feel it's justified. They have no right to be outraged when they're exposed for who they are.
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