The other side is that people can only take so much misery before turning to a coping device. Humor is a preferred method as it lightens the spirit. If human sized Smurfs showed up on my lawn, I’d probably laugh, too.

It’s not a perfect world. I would have to make a massive database to keep track of everyones’ personal interests or crusades for different things around the world. Yes, compared to the rest of the world I live a good life. I do/give what I can to help out. Unfortuneatly it’s not a whole lot. There was an epidsode of Sports Night where one of the characters was freaking out because he couldn’t figure out what to do with some extra money he had to help which cause/disease/country. Eventually someone told him it doesn’t matter, as long as you do -something- for someone.

You see, because Palestinians are constantly de-humanised as blood thirsty, sub-humans; their suffering is either well deserved, or trivial at best. This time, they tried to get their message across using something that the Western world can relate to, because nobody cares about a dark skinned towel-head’s misery. This is actually sad, not ridiculous.

I have read so many racist, hateful and disturbing things on the matter from both sides of the conflict but I have to say that your post has saddened me in a whole different level. The sheer ignorance and superficiality of it is just painful. It is the kind that does not anger one, but make him sorrowful. And I apologise if I sound like an ass, or offended you. I swear it was not my intention, but I needed to get it off my chest.