Thanks to the Palestinians, the Kurds have learned that the only thing the world pays attention to is blowing yourself up in a crowd:
A bomb set off by a suspected Kurdish suicide bomber Thursday killed two people and injured 19 in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast, local officials said.
Police Chief Tacettin Kurt said a police officer, a civilian and an unidentified man were killed, and seven of the injured were in serious condition.
Mustafa Yavuz, the deputy governor of Van, where the attack took place, said the body of the unidentified man was torn apart, leading police to suspect he was a suicide bomber.
“It is 99 percent likely to be a suicide attack,” Yavuz said.
As much as I’d like to see Woodrow Wilson’s dream of an independent Kurdistan come to life (and Winston Churchill’s perfidy vanquished) at the expense of their Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian tormentors, shifting to suicide bombing attacks against civilian targets isn’t going to generate sympathy and help fund-raising efforts.
Unless, of course, they target Turkish synagogues. That’ll get the UN, EU, and Arab League falling over themselves with their checkbooks out when the cameras are off.
It is a bad unintentional pun but there definitely is a “blow back” effect from th the PLO’s use of terrorism.
Let the Arabs stew in their own juices. Let them reap what they sow! Good riddance!
Umm, Turks ain’t Arabs, although they are Muslims.
Suicide or not, I lose sympathy when they go around blowing up civilians as their primary target. Unfortunately in war some bystanders get killed. The problem is when the bystanders become the main target in order to terrify everybody else, which is what terrorism is. So if the Kurds in Turkey are following in the Chechen’s footsteps they’ll lose my sympathy at the least.
As for the Palis, they have been practicing terrorism against Jews for decades, branching out against Christians at times. They have no standing for consideration as a result. As far as I am concerned the Israelis can do to them whatever they find necessary, short of massacre. I think Israel has been far too gentle with them over the last five years. An Arab country would have given them the Hama treatment in October 2000, and the Kuwaiti expulsion treatment by the end of 2001, for what they did in starting the Oslo War.
I think Israel’s failure to massacre or expel the Palis en masse is a major reason the Palis, and other Arabs, always seem to think Israel is weak and on the verge of losing. They expect far more violence in retaliation to what they have done than Israel has used, so they think the Israelis are wimps as a result. After all, if the tables were turned the Arabs would massacre the Jews to the last man, woman, and child.
I think that it is the world’s reaction to Israeli actions that exposes the leverage available to the Arafats and Saddams. If one goes right back to the 1920s it will be shown that British behaviour showed the arabs that they were free to go for it.
Just look at what the “Little King” did in September 1970 and nobody said eek. Just look at what Arafat did, just in the town of Damour in Lebanon in 1976 (500+ massacred in the most bestial fashion, with the church used as a garage for the PLO’s Jeeps and as a small arms shooting range and with the destruction and spoiling of their grave yard) and nobody said boo.
Hilarion Capucci, Vatican representative in the area went and smuggled arms and explosives for the PLO in his official Mercedes and what the Vatican flipped over was that Israel imprisoned him.
The UNIFIL(th) base in Kfar Kana in Lebanon gave cover to Hezbollah’s goat herders who then resorted to firing Katyushas into Northern Israel whereupon Israeli retalliation brought down brimstone and fire from the world onto man of peace Peres.
Let us not forget that accessory Hezbollah made use of, UNIFIL(th), to cross the border and abduct and kill 3 Israelis.
The arabs know that they have free reign except when it comes to French aircraft or Chechnya.