WT, I guess this is mostly directed at you, but I welcome any inputs.
I just don't seem to understand how there can be any link between education and/or intelligence, and morality.
Also, I go out of my way to not take sides regarding the conflict in the mid-East.
I certainly don't condone terrorism, but I can understand that they are desperate. When you feel you have to fight, you fight with what you can.
Had the Palestinians been propped up for decades with billion$ in foreign aid, I think that they would also be fighting with planes, tanks, and helicopters.
I do think that the British (and allies) used bad judgement after WWI when they decided to relocate Jews into Palestine. It was perhaps an even worse decision to create the country of Israel in 1948. The agenda, or rationale, for doing this was to prop up a Christian belief that there has to be an existing country of Israel in order for other prophetic events to transpire. The Jews were definitely benefitting from this. After all, they were being handed a new country. But perhaps they were also being used.
At any rate, I can certainly understand how the Palestinians are upset that they were driven from their lands. Put yourself in their place. You'd probably fight too, in any way you possibly could. My guess is that they would prefer to fight as soldiers, if they could.
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