Are only Arabs Terrorists?

Question

On my previous question yesterday I received an answer regarding Palestiniens being held in Israeli prisons and I was asked to notice "what kind of people" they are.

Please read the link giving below and pay attention to the sections "action" and "response".

http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=osraeli+terrorists&fr=slv8-fp&u=electronicintifada.net/forreference/documents/jewishterrorists.html&w=osraeli+israeli+terrorists&d=ISxeqernOwhY&icp=1&.intl=us

Without offending anybody: Is killing and murdering a matter who kills whom? Is an Arab live less worth than an Israeli's?

Another example is Ariel Sharon:
Sharon was personally responsible for the massacre due to negligence and complacency. Sharon was dismissed as Defense Minister as a result. Prison term? NO.

I do not agree with any violence not matter who causes it. Why do people not receive equal treatment?
Why is it understandale when an Israeli does some for his country while an Arab is called a terrorist?

Thanks for your answers so far. To all who say Israel needs to get provoked or is action in self defense: Please read "action" on the giving link. There is only ONE case considered: He was not prosecuted as the killings were considered to be self-defence.
Being provoked or acting in self-defence is something else.
Btw.: EVERYBODY has the right to defense his/herself. But self defense ha to be done right that moment when you get attact and not days later. Then it's called revenge and not self defense.

edit James J: "Your "question" is really a political statement that wishes for the destruction of Israel."
You even did not answer my question. You are just assuming things and even that you don't do right.

Answer 1

See who is the real Terrorists and who started the School of terror.
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." - David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New
York 1978.

Answer 2

Many of the actions that occured here are not acts of terrorism, but are crimes and as started with the first action have been ajudicated. Sadly not all crimes do get punished anywhere (example the OJ Simpson case - whether he was guilty or not - the person of true guilt was not prosecuted). That was 52 incidents over a long period of time and there are more unsolved murders in NYC (which btw has a population of roughly one million more than Israel and the occupied territories combine) in a one to two year period even though the number of homicides have been drastically reduced in NYC over the last 17 years http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/pdf/chfdept/cscity.pdf Its data like that which to the informed observer lead to why most in the West don't consider the claims of the Palestinians very valid. Considering the lack of cooperation and all it makes things even more suspect. I am sure if you compare the statistics of Israelis who commit crimes against Palestinian the data will show that there is a comparably high rate incarceration compared to other populations.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

I assume you got the labels of terrorist from the western media. Understand that in the western media, arab's who attack other's will be called terrorists and it the middle eastern media they will be called hero's. Likewise, in Middle Eastern media, Israeli's will be called infidels and murderers....you get the point. Just depends who you get your label from. Also, you do not see the Israeli's recruiting members from the U.K., and the eastern and african continents, putting them in training camps, and teaching them how to blow people up to promote their religion. I have a feeling that if "terrorists" would stay out of Israel, their would'nt really be much news from that region. Ususally, when you see an Israeli military movement, it is in response to provocation. One has to wonder, with Israel being the third most powerful military in the world.... is it really a good idea to pick a fight anyway? Of course, dream as we may, the arab/Israeli conflict will continue. So the answer to your question is, an Israeli is viewed in a positive light, when he holds an Arab in custody because it is likely in defense of his people even if later, they find the Arab innocent.....and an Arab is called a terrorist because he leaves his home land and kills others who he does not know for a less tangible reason than self defense.

Answer 4

There is a more than subtle difference between acts of war and terrorism. Unfortunately more than anywhere else or any other people, to many of the action of errant Arabs fall more into the area of terrorism than war, with the deliberate killing of innocent citizens at home and abroad in places totally removed from the war.

Answer 5

First of all, to answer this kind of questions, we shall try to be as much honest as we can be without any prejudice. What I am extracting from answers, is mostly people are biased, how can we expect really good thinking from biased people?
Why shall we call Arabs the terrorists? Arab is a significant term and it covers a whole lot of people, and a very large region. Can all of them be terrorists?
And what is the definition of a terrorist or terrorism? Since a long time we have been reading and watching people declaring each other the same. Who is right, who is wrong? what is the rational answer?
Whole nation, whole races can not be terrorists. There are lot of political motives and many interest groups involved in middle east, its not just between israel and Palestine. There is war, and there are parties which are really proxies in this war, fighting for some one else. And there are people who are fighting for themselves.
In this complex situation, I think declaring someone a terrorist is a good way to escape from reality.

Answer 6

Killing does not equal terror. Terror is a specific brand of murder, one that today is monopolized by Arabs and Islamic extremists, but other groups also commit terror. Your Ariel Sharon argument is flawed; he did not himself kill anyone and certainly not by terrorist activity.
The Israelis who commit violence for Israel are called soldiers, and the difference between their brand of violence and terror is simply the target. The Israeli military targets terrorists exclusively; while mistakes do happen and civilians end up as casualties they were never the targets. Palestinians on the other hand who take up violence against Israel see all Israelis as equal targets; they specifically target civilians, and that is why they are considered terrorists.
Not all violence was created equal, and as such the treatment isn't equal either.

Answer 7

Not all terrorists are Arabs or Muslims; even through most of the terrorist organizations start with a corruption of Islam, many regular Americans and other citizens of the world join up with the terrorists.

Another major misconception is that terrorists are poor people. Most of the leaders are smart and kind of rich (like the doctors that were involved in the recent UK terror plot, and the leaders of al-Qaeda.

To be quite blunt, with regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Israelis usually fight only when they have been provoked, even if they use too much force. They don't fight for the purpose of terrorizing people. Any Israeli terrorists wouldn't be working through a big organization (the Israeli government itself is certainly not arranged to promote terrorism against the Palestinians). Some of the organizations for the Palestinians/Arabs (like Hamas and Hezbollah) do use terrorist tactics.

About the article that you linked--I am sure the Palestinian groups are made to look like the bad guys because of the terrorist organizations. And those involved in Hamas and other such known terrorist groups are the bad guys, just as much as any Israeli who would kill an Arab just for the heck of it.

Answer 8

How terrible. How really terrible.

There is a lack of justice in the Middle East. In this life, or the next the israelis will need to make up the balance.

To all of the parents of those children and people murdered, my deep sympathies.

Answer 9

No
Timothy Mcvay, Charles Manson, Hitler, Ide Amin Dada, Any Tsar(tzar) Stalin , Jim Jones Zodiac , son of sam,
do I need to go on!

Answer 10

well although what i read is a tragedy but it seems to me as a black comedy issue what are you expect from who don't want peace are you expect to hear that they have justice no way btw. i didn't surprised from history they said that there is Holocaust to give them selves excuses for war and they did it again on 11\9 just to give excuses on what they are doing now they are at Iraq , Afghanistan , and once they were at Egypt and god know who is next its Iran or Syria who comes first god know so don't surprise they who put the definition of terrorism but when you defend so you are the the terrorism