A large number of x-JWs have agreed that the Watchtower is a cult or cult-like. Our reading over the years after our exit gives us some appreciation for how cults work, even political type, like Hitler's Nazi party. Having lived in a cult environment, we were willing to die for that religon if necessary - to please Jehovah - so as we once thought it would.
Now, the Arafat Cult is booming in our faces: With all the peace accords presented and some accepted, such as the Oslo Accords, etc. ... still Arafat and his goons are not happy. Is he simply a warrior whose is trying to set his people free?
On Palestinian radio he frequently calls for Jihad, repreating it three times for emphasis, Jihad! Jihad, Jihad! ... he signs the checks for explosive supplies to Hamas and others for suicide bombings.
Today in the Daily Herald, Chicago: A large article deals with how Arafat has the children trained in school to want to die as martyrs, "How a Culture learns to nurture martyrs" ... It shows pictures of 1st grade children chanting Jihad! ... they want to sacrifice their lives to please Allah!
This Arafat fellow is a Cult leader: Israel may be handling this poorly, and Arafat is playing on every Israeli error ... but it is clear that this man is using cult mind-control ... right in our faces ...
Imagine everytime you board a bus, or go to the shopping mall, or took a seat in a restaurant that you have to look around because some 12 year old girl might rush in with bombs attached, and set it off ... killing and injuring everyone around you, or even you.
Is Israel at fault? Some charge Israel for being worse because more Palestinians have died than Israelis. The counter to that is that in WWII more Germans, including civilians died as a result of Allied attacks than any other group, except the Jews in concentration camps.
The difference is that Israel does not target civilians, but in its effort to chase down cult-terrorists, Palestinian civilians do get hurt and killed. Recently, far more Afghans died in the war on terrorism brought to them by the Allies led by the USA-UK. That is war.
The difference is that Arafat the religious cult leader on a par with David Koresh of the Branch Davidian teaches young children to hate Israelis, and die as martyrs for Allah in Holy Jihad ... he has them target innocent civilians. His goal is to kill Jews for the sake of killing Jews ... Death to Israel is their mantra.
How should Israel and the rest of the civilized world deal with this?