That didn't take long

I posted yesterday that it was only a matter of time before the plight of the Palestinians would be used to explain away the violence of accused Ft Hood murderer Nidal Hasan.

Trust me, it won't be long before Hasan will be sympathetically portrayed as enraged by Israeli treatment of the Palestinians, the campaign against Hamas last year, etc. So what else could he do but shoot dozens of his fellow Americans? Terrible thing, tut tut, don'cha know, but really, he just couldn't take what The Jews were doing any more.

And I was right - and a short matter of time it was indeed. In fact, negative time. Reader "Ole55" pointed me to a piece in the University of New Mexico's Daily Lobo, "Fort Hood shooter violated numerous Islamic principles," except I guess the Islamic principles that justify mass murder as long as it's done from anger about the Palestinian problem. UNM alum Sami Shakir first condemns the killings and maiming, but only up to a point. And that point is where the Palestinians enter the stream of a Muslim's consciousness.

All this raises the question of what is wrong with Muslims that an educated man like Hasan resorts to a mindless act of savagery by shooting unarmed colleagues of his who trusted his care as a medical doctor. It is a complex problem but there is one major cause that torments Muslims and reminds them of their impotence almost daily. That issue is the Palestinian problem. As long as the Palestinians are humiliated and deprived of their basic human rights, the average Muslim will feel the throbbing pain of shame and the frustration of helplessness and irrelevance. For young men, this kind of mental anguish drives them to dark areas of the human mind where some might turn to demons.

Alas, it seems that until the Palestinian problem is resolved in favor of the Palestinians. there will be more such violence to come, says Shamir, coming seriously unhinged.

If the world does not help resolve this human tragedy for which both Palestinians and Israelis are paying the price, there will always be weak people like Nidal Hasan who will be vulnerable to the preaching of hate mongers like the terrorists who use Islam as the currency for their demented ideologies or Jewish extremists who preach violence against Palestinians, or Christian hate mongers who preach nuking the Muslims. If we care for the Palestinians and Israelis, we need to step in and enforce international laws on all, because the rest of the world is becoming a victim in this tragedy.

Let's see: we have Muslim terrorists who are "demented" (how true, good on Shamir for saying so), "Jewish extremists" preaching violence against the Pallys and "Christian hate mongers who preach nuking the Muslims," for which a citation would be nice.

Yet there are extremely few "Jewish extremists" attacking Palestinians - and the Israeli government ruthlessly prosecutes those who do. As for "Christian hate mongers" who want to nuke Muslims, well, show me the cite.

Yet of demented Muslim terrorists we have no shortage. And they are rewarded, not punished, by Muslim governments as long as they direct their terrorism against Western targets.

It seems not have occurred to Shamir that if the Palestinian issue is resolved at all, at least one of the three extremist groups he named will be unhappy with the resolution. And since the Muslims' demands are the most extreme, how does that bode well for peace?