Future terrorists?

Yet again the Israel – Palestine conflict is in focus with the recent events at the Gaza strip. I get very upset and annoyed when hear about the way the politicians on both sides are acting. In my eyes they are like a bunch of kids in sand box. “He throw sand at me, now I need to throw something back…” I wouldn’t actually care if they killed each other and destroyed each other houses etc, but think about all the innocent people who suffer. Especially in this case with damaging the electricity supply. Carl Bildt, as always, writes about it so much better than me. But one thing is clear hate and devastation like this breed terrorism.

It would be very difficult indeed not to classify these acts by Israel as deliberate attempts to punish and destroy the ordinary lives of ordinary Palestinians, and to inflict humanitarian suffering well beyond what the laws of war could motivate.

I guess that if someone deliberately destroyed the power supply of New York it would immediately be classified as an act of terrorism, since the purpose could be no other than inflicting harm on innocent civilians.

As long as Israel acts like this - deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure of critical importance for the population - they deserve the condemnation of the world, and they gravely undercut the support that otherwise would be there for actions necessary against rockets fired at Israel.

Whatever it should be called - there is no doubt that acts like these are acts that breed and fuel terrorism.