Omar Barghouti - The Palestinians Have Lost Their Humanity

Riveting report! First published on Electronic Intifada!

While the corruption, lawlessness, profiteering and even betrayal of sections of Fatah have been known and well documented for some time now, the brutal, reckless and in some cases criminal tactics used by armed groups within Hamas were fresh reminders to neutral bystanders who were willing to give the group the benefit of the doubt that it, too, contains a strong, power-hungry faction that is eager to sacrifice principles and human rights to reach its political objectives.

So far. so good. But here is the kicker:

...we have a moral duty to avoid tactics that indiscriminately target innocent civilians and inevitably corrupt our own humanity.

Being that the Arabs residing in the territories have been using tactics that indiscriminately target innocent civilians for the last 86 years, Omar has convinced us that the Palestinians have lost their humanity.

Especially in the light of the over 60% of such Islamic Arabs who support suicide bombers and the launching of missiles in civilian areas.

Will the Arabs ever recover from this lack of humanity or will it humiliate them further?