Ok, so let us see if we have this straight.

The US has made it clear to the world that it wants the Northern Alliance to annihilate all of bin Laden’s forces in Kondoz and the other areas of Afghanistan remaining in Taliban hands and crawling with Afghan children. There have already been thousands of people slaughtered by the Northern Alliance, and only a naif would think they are ALL Taliban fighters. Thousands others have been killed by the carpet bombing of Taliban strongholds crawling with children, which the US unabashedly (and correctly) pursues. The US has given the Northern Alliance carte blanche to fill the body bags with al-Qaeda terrorists. How many bags will actually include civilians and children? That is not the issue, the US correctly insists, any more than were the dead children of Dresden and Tokyo in World War II.

And in the middle of all that, SUDDENLY the main news story on the Thanksgiving Day broadcasts is that four Palestinian kids playing with a shell blew themselves up in the Gaza Strip. The media is suddenly AGHAST. Those barbarian Jews are murdering Arab children again. Drinking their blood for Passover, like on the Abu Dhabi broadcasts.

Now never mind that no one knows if the shell was Israel’s, or merely one more PLO mode of protest for peace. And if it turns out it WAS an Israeli shell, no one thinks it worth mentioning that it got there in the first place because it was fired at PLO "police" shooting weapons or mortars at Jewish civilians and troops. Just why are Israeli shells fired at Palestinians, for fun? We all KNOW why, because the PLO has used every inch of the territory the Israeli Left has granted it to fire upon and murder Jews. Which means that even if it IS an Israel shell, those who are morally responsible for the deaths of these Palestinian children are the ones who have turned the Gaza Strip into a large mortar factory and who fire at Jews every day.

So those same people who dismissed the murder of 21 Jewish children at the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium by a PLO "activist" as comeuppance for "occupation" are suddenly terribly upset by the death of children.

Say it loud and clear. These Palestinian children were murdered by the PLO and by those who brought the PLO into the Gaza Strip.

Steven Plaut

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