A friend of mine just wrote me how mad he is at the Los Angeles Times for putting on page 11, instead of page 1, the important statement by Richard Perl who now believes we should not have invaded Iraq.
I answered him the following:

I wonder why you are so mad at the Los Angeles Times. May be you want to direct your anger at the Bush team. However, it is also a mistake to blame that Bush team, and I am no supporter of them, for the unforeseen developments in Iraq, especially the endless atrocities against civilians. We, and I mean almost every one, did not grasp the lack of respect for human lives of these people: the terrorists, and many Iraqis themselves, who propagate these atrocities, both Shiites and Sunnis.

We need to stop focusing our anger at ourselves, but direct it at them- the murderers!
This does not mean supporting Bush, but anger? Direct it towards the Arab world that tolerates these atrocities and also support the terrorists.

Similarly in Israel. Most Israelis direct their anger at their government, instead of the Palestinians and Hezbollah who commit the atrocities and rocket firing.
See below what a Palestinian leader says about their Violent Society.

Americans, and I believe especially Jews, are so eager to despise, and fight with our brothers instead of focusing our anger on the real source of the agony. We can disagree as much as we wish among ourselves, but the anger should be directed towards those in the outside world who cause the murders and agonies.

Matania
11/4/06

PA Spokesman: Are the Palestinians a Violent Society?
Palestinian government spokesman Dr. Ghazi Hamad wrote in Al-Ayyam on October 17, 2006: "Are we really a violent society?...It has become the master that we obey everywhere - in the home, in the neighborhood, in the family....Our celebrations have no point or meaning, unless during them we fire a volley of bullets that echoes alongside the women's ululations of joy. Under sad circumstances and at funerals, our heroes volunteer to 'puncture' the air with hundreds of shots from their rifles. It is inconceivable for our marches - whatever their goals and political color - not to have dozens of rifles and armed gangs climbing on cars and aiming rifles, and youths leaning out of car windows waving the barrels of the Kalashnikovs and roaring with joy."
"When we are angry at the electric company, we have no solution but to shatter its [equipment] and break its furniture. When we are angry at the municipality or at the governor, we call in a group of masked gunmen - the heroes of our age - to climb on the rooftop and draw their weapons in front of the satellite TV [reporters]." (MEMRI)

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