Acid and arrests

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the Gaza evacuation or eviction or whatever you're preferred term. Various reports suggest that many of the protestors have arrived from elsewhere. Some threw acid on the Israeli police. The acid incident tended to be downplayed, if mentioned at all, in US reports.

Now, I'm not an expert on the history of Palestine and Israel, but it seems to me that this was stolen territory. It's rough to be displaced from a place you've come to call home, but didn't "home" result from aggression in the first place? I have little sympathy for these people. Read the passage below, substitute "Arab" or "Muslim" for "West Bank settler," and then question the extent to which "terrorism" is a relativized, politicized term.

Meanwhile, a West Bank settler who gunned down four Palestinians on the first day of the forcible evacuation yesterday said he had no remorse, as thoughts turned to the future of Gaza after the withdrawal.

"I am not sorry for what I have done. I wanted to stop the pullout and I hope someone murders Sharon as well," Asher Weisgan told reporters as he was brought by police to a court near Tel Aviv.