Daily Archives: June 29, 2006

Message to Palestinian militants

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Tensions mount once again between Israel and Palestine, this time over the capture of an Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, and now the execution by Palestinian extremists of a young Israeli settler, Eliahu Asheri, and this has the potential to escalate significantly.

What is it that the Palestinian militants think they are going to achieve by their campaigns of violence and kidnapping? I’ve got a message for them – Israel is not going away, so you guys need to come to terms with that and reach some sort of mutually acceptable compromise. Continuing with terrorism is like bashing your heads against a brick wall, and isn’t going to achieve anything, except retaliation from Israel which is inevitably going to do more harm to the Palestinian people than Hamas, Hezbollah and the like can ever do to Israel. Sure, killing a few Israelis may make the militants and their supporters feel good, but its not going to make Israel go away and leave the Middle East. In fact, if push comes to shove, Israel is the one with the capability to bomb Palestine, Syria and the like into the Stone Age.

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Just so evil

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How could someone do something like killing an 8 year old girl he picked up at random? Thats what happened to Sofia Rodrigez-Urrutia-Shu on Monday this week in Perth.

Sofia Rodrigez-Urrutia-Shu

She went to the toilet at a shopping centre, and was found 10 minutes or so later by her brother, having been stripped of her clothes, raped and strangled.Just what sort of sicko does this sort of thing? Who’d even think of an 8 year old as a sex object? Its just totally wrong!

A couple of interesting things have emerged since Dante Wyndham Arthurs was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting and murdering Sofia. First, his home has been attacked by vigilantes – I can understand the strong feelings a crime like this generates in people, but attacking his property (actually his parents’ house) is pretty pointless. Second, authorities have had to quash rumours that Arthurs was in fact one of the two boys who abducted and murdered James Bulger in England in 1993. Those boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, were given new identities and relocated upon their release from prison, and there has previously been speculation that one was in Australia. Now, we have his lawyers claiming all the publicity surrounding the case will deny Dante Arthurs a fair trial.

If there was a case for capital punishment in Australia, a crime like this would surely be a strong candidate for the perpetrator to be subject to the death penalty – much to be said for eradicating the scum who do this sort of thing from the face of the earth. I suspect that he will get it via unofficial channels in prison at some stage.

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