SmallMajorProblem

As a Muslim too, your support for Hamas troubles me. Why not target the IDF instead of civilian homes in Israel? Instead of thousands of tiny rockets, surely better weapons can be targeted at the source of the oppression. I'm from South Africa. We too were oppressed and I certainly understand the need for armed resistance. The ANC (the party that librated us) also had an armed wing but never associated due to the ANC's disapproval of violence.

Nelson Mandela himself was convicted of planning to blow up the railway system, but they would never resort to fear and intimidation against civilians. It was always targeted, government offices or establishments that supported the regime, never a white person's home. What was even more amazing, was how kindly he treated those who oppressed him after liberation. With the amount of hate I see from both sides, I can't see anything similar happening in When you say things like you support Hamas, it makes it very hard for us to sympathise. You want us to feel sorry for your bombed children while you support bombing Israel's children. The Quran does not preach selective compassion. I wish the Arab world would shed it's stubbornness and find it's Nelson Mandela.

(I urge you to read up on the South African struggle, and Nelson Mandelas biography "A long walk to freedom")

As far as they see it, they're resisting the illegal occupation and blockade. One might say that the blockade was a result of 'resisting', but they'll say they were then resisting their homes being bulldozed and being forcefully evicted from their ancient land and so the cycle goes on and on all the way back to 1948... tit for tat and who did what first. The whole problem was the Western worlds insistance on drawing lines and borders in parts of the world they had little knowledge on. That was why the Arab world was unhappy, the UN gave a people who made up 7% of the population, 56% of the land. This, the Arab world felt was an injustice and possibly had something to do with Western guilt for WWII. Whatever the case, the Jewish people were all too happy to take that land with both hands and hold their heads up high declaring that the mighty UN gave them the right to that land, as per international agreements and that the world should respect that. Now when that same UN asks Israel the state, to return land stolen in 1967 as it's against international law (even if it was 'conquered'), suddenly the UN's authority isn't that important anymore.

The modern Arab world is a shithole, far from the centre of knowledge and progressive thinking it once was. The reason minorities are treated like shit in other parts of the Arab world is because they are Islamic States. The world is constantly condemning these states but as long as the US and UK need an ally for oil, nothing will be done. That is why the solution is in a single, secular state since the land is important to all 3 Abrahamic religions. No religion/race should be above the other, but Hamas and Israel do not want that.

Woah, let's not twist the man's words. There's a lot of hate on both sides, but there's a huge difference between "wiping one side out" and armed resistance. Also, 'wiping Israel off the map' to my knowledge means the removing the state, not killing all the Jews. I just hope people like /u/dark7wizard see that trying to fight for a just cause even though you know civilians will be killed is not the way to fight.

I do hope you are safe and not affected by any rocket fire.

On a lighter note, I'd just like to ask: Why do all you journos and anchors at Al-Jazeera have such wonderfully catchy, almost fictitious names?... Barnaby Phillips, Sue Turton, Ghida Fakhry, Jane Dutton, Marwan Bishara, Rahul Pathak, Andy Richardson etc. It's like reading an incredibly ethnically diverse mystery novel.

Keep up the good work and high standards of journalism.

Who is your celebrity crush?