Anarcho-capitalists like myself like to say that whatever government fights only grows stronger.  The State bans the use of certain narcotics, and the sale of them skyrocket.  The State tries to fight terrorism, which only creates more people who hates the goverment attacking them.  It’s a truth, one that you can’t escape from when you understand that the State works only through coercion and force.

The Washington Post has a great article up today about Palestinians interviewed in Cairo, Egypt hospitals.  Hearing what innocent injured civilians have to say is enlightening for those who refuse to accept that Israel’s ventures into Palestinian lands is not just corrupt, it is criminal.

From the WaPo article:

 

Neither, apparently, can Hussein, a Palestinian policeman whose right arm was broken when Israeli missiles hit his police academy Dec. 27. Hussein voted for Hamas in the last election but said he never joined their militia. That’s about to change.

“I want to go back and fight with Hamas,” he said.

 

Hamas, as some know, was the democratically elected majority party in the first democrat elections in Palestine.  The governments of the United States and Israel refuse to accept the will of the people, so they brand Hamas as a terrorist organization.  Citizens in the U.S. can send money to Israel to support their side, but we can not support Palestine, because our governments restrict our freedom to use our money as we see fit.  Terrorism, as it was originally labeled by the French, was created by governments, not by rebels.

The WaPo article continues:

“I supported neither Hamas nor Fatah,” said Anwar el-Sahabani, 35, a carpenter with a casts on his right leg and left arm, the result of an airstrike. He was referring to Hamas’s rival party. “Today, after all that has happened, I have to support Hamas.”

As we see here, even the non-political want to get involved in refusing the trespass of the Israeli government into Palestinian lands, something Israel has done against U.N. edicts for decades.

Israel said they are bombing police stations and schools and mosques because they house Hamas rebels.  As notes in the WaPo interviews:

“They think everything is related to Hamas. They think if they destroy the buildings, they will bring Hamas down,” Abdul Latif said. “But Hamas is not a building, or a mosque, or a school, or a police station. Hamas is people. Each and every house has Hamas people.”

Another person in the hospital:

“I did not support Hamas before,” he added. “Now, I do. The whole world is conspiring against Hamas. And the number one conspirer is the United States.”

Israel is funded by the U.S. government, with taxdollars taken from the citizens, sometimes against our will.  The Palestinians know this, and count every Israeli bomb and bullet as stamped with the name of the U.S.  This creates more hatred towards us, more rebels to fight an ongoing battle for the land that has been theirs for thousands of years.

A father notes:

 

As his father watched, Alaa Mustafa Saad hobbled to his bed. His kneecaps were bandaged. The 13-year-old had been near a police station when it was struck by an Israeli missile, spitting shrapnel into his legs.

Soon, his 7-year-old brother, Dhia, will join him: Three days ago, Dhia was playing on the roof when a tank shell hit it, killing his cousin and injuring him, explained the boys’ father, Mustafa.

Mustafa said he was glad his sons were here. “Here, it is far away from the rockets. Here, it is easy for him to be a child. Back in Gaza, he can’t do this.”

 

Even the children know who their enemy is.  As they see the horrors inflicted on innocent civilians, what is the effect on them for their future?  Will they embrace those bombing their mothers and sisters as liberators, or will they see that there is on justice by killing randomly?

Another injured civilian:

 

Hanni Mohammed, 38, spoke up from the next bed. “Why don’t you blame the Americans?” he demanded. “Why is America not stopping the war?”

He had fought in the previous Palestinian intifidas, or uprisings, but had stayed on the sidelines in the current conflict, Mohammed said. No longer.

 

There is no end to this outrage, and more will come, because our citizens are quiet, our government is tied to Israel rather than to freedom and exiting entangling alliances.  What is left of our Constitution, the document that sets the boundaries on government, is tattered and in ruins.

So it continues: government tries to fight something, and all it does is make the problem larger.

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