Ted Lapkin,

What happened to the good old "I fix my own backyard, you fix yours"?
I am yet to see articles by the likes of yourself about Israeli right-wing and its role in Hamas coming to power.. (There was nothing on google).

Isn't the PLO corruption and the Israeli "Pal & Estein" approach is what got Hamas to power today?

Agree that adressing islamists danger is important. But isn't all religious motivated greed & violence bad or are you being selective?
Where have you been when islamists were blowing up other Muslims since Sadat's time?

I think your internet research skills are in need of a little polish.

RADIO NATIONAL 'Perspective'
9 August 2005 - Ted Lapkin

[This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/stories/s1433770.htm]

Murder is murder. And regardless of who is the perpetrator and who is the victim, the unjustified killing of human beings must be unequivocally condemned and severely punished.

The repugnant act of slaughter committed by an Israeli army deserter named Eden Natan-Zada is no exception to this rule. The premeditated attack by a Jewish extremist against innocent people in the Arab village of Shfaram was an act of terrorism, pure and simple. In this spirit, the Israeli government denied Natan-Zada a funeral with military honours on the grounds that a murderer was 'unworthy of being buried next to the fallen soldiers of Israel’s wars.'

Eden Natan-Zada was a follower of the late and unlamented radical rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach movement was outlawed on account of its racist anti-Arab ideology.

Kahane’s disciples today constitute a numerically insignificant splinter group on the far-right fringes of Israeli politics and society. They dream of transforming Israel into a biblically literalist Jewish theocracy from which the Arab population has been purged. The overwhelming majority of Jews, both within Israel and throughout the Disapora, regards Kahanists as an abomination and as an embarrassment to their faith.

While a moral obscenity in and of itself, the terrorist murder of innocents in Shfaram has a larger dimension as well. There was method to Natan-Zada’s madness...

Read the whole piece at:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/stories/s1433770.htm

Murder is murder, you say.

So what do you have to say about Israel's direct involvement in the Sabra and Chatila massacres? Or are some forms of murder less evil than others?