Originally posted by Vorsprung:
Now this is not fair and against the Geneva Convention which states that a civilian's life is worth more than a soldier's life, no matter who that soldier is.....
I couldn't help but cynically laugh at this statement due to the fact that I had just read something on a website about a group of people called 'THE CONCERNED'.. I'll post the article below..
L.Unplugged
EIB:
I don't know if you watch TV enough to notice this trend of "concerned" pundits. Juan Williams epitomizes this group, which I call "The Concerned." They're worried about the so-called unfairness of the Mideast situation. Now, Juan is a great guy. He's one of the nicest guys on cable TV. He genuinely feels and genuinely cares. I like him. He was fair and nice when he interviewed me on Fox News Sunday. He's right about a lot of things, but on things
like this, he's off the reservation.
The problem Juan has is that he's saddled with the affliction that most of The Concerned have - this notion of fairness. Juan and the rest of The Concerned just don't think it's fair that Israel has a mightier military than the Palestinians, or of any other Middle Eastern country for that matter. You can hear this concern articulated when they ask, "Well, what's fair when one side has ammo, mortars and tanks and the other side has rocks?"
Well, let me ask all of "The Concerned" some questions: Is it fair that Israel only has five million citizens and is surrounded by hundreds of millions of enemies? Is it fair that Israel's land versus its enemies' land is the equivalent of a postage stamp on a football field? Is that fair? What about the five million people that are Israeli citizens? They're not all Jewish people. Many of them are Arabs.
Perhaps somebody could explain to me why Israeli Arabs have a life that the Palestinians under Arafat can only dream of. Israeli Arabs have state-of-the-art health care. Men and women have education and the right to vote. Have you heard of the Arab vote in Israeli prime minister elections? When the Israelis run for prime minister, they court the Arab vote.
All this business of fairness deliberately avoids talking about the happy, productive Arabs who live in Israel. Their per capita income is many times higher than the Palestinian-controlled areas. Outside of being falsely bolstered temporarily by oil money, Israel's Arabs are number one in every category. And they don't leave to go live under Arab dictatorships, do they? I wonder why that is?
Nobody ever talks about these people. We're just so concerned about how "unfair" it is that Israel gets all this aid - never mind all the aid Arafat gets from the Arab nations, aid he spends on bombs and mansions instead of hospitals, schools and jobs. This fairness cuts both ways. When you look at some of the equations, you'll find a lot of unfairness stacked up against Israel, but nobody complains about it. They just deal with it and do what's necessary.