You know, I can understand why the Palestinians are blowing themselves up in Israel. I can understand it, but I can't justify it - acts of violence is unjustifiable IMO, it should only take place when all else is tried.

The Palestinians are occupied by a powerful enemy, and I guess they want to fight every way they can. The suicide bombings are effective and the Israelis certainly has noe good way of stopping the bombing.

Back in the 40s my contry was occupied by the Germans. The German army was supreme to the Norwegian, and there really was no hope of fighting the conventional way. So people went and blew up buildings and bridges, terrorism I guess, but I don't think anyone called it that at the time.

I'm not trying to create a parallell between the Germans during WW2 and the present Israel, after all the Israelis are friends and a democratic state. But I can see a common denominator between the German occupation of Norway and the Israeli occupation of Palestine - both Norwegians and Palestinians hated/hate their occupant and are willing to do a lot of bad things to harm the enemy. Even if it's not really gonna make the enemy go away. The men who blew up the German police HQ in Oslo in 1942 didn't believe the Germans would go away - but they though it would frighten and piss of the Germans, I guess that was a reason good enough for them. Innocent people were killed, but I don't think the Norwegians cared. Most people when they look back, probably think it still was a right thing to do.

A friend's grandfather became a member of the Norwegian nazi party (controlled by the Germans) during the occupation. That was wrong and cowardly, don't you think? Well, he was a peace loving man, and he did it because he believed that would stop the violence. I'm not sure what I would have done, but I think I would have tried to fight the occupant. Today we know that would have been the right choice, because the occupant was finally defeated. And we know that the Palestinians are wrong about fighting, because they are not gonna win - only make matters worse. Maybe the Palestinians believe fighting will get rid of the occupant, i don't know.

So, IMO the Norwegians were right to blow up German istallations, and the Palestine are wrong to blow up Israeli. And it's all got to do with the outcome of the conflict. Would I support the Palestinian suicide bombing if I knew it would make Israel withdraw from the occupied soil. Hmmm... Maybe. Probably.

Again, I would like to say that I do not in any way place Nazi Germany and Israel side by side. I'm just trying to use examples that are close to me, and the German occupation is easy for me to relate to.

And I would like to say that in the Israeli/Palestine conflict, there are not really any badguys. Just an extremely difficult conflict and people who do what they think is right - no matter how wrong they might be.