PETA is decrying Palestinian terrorism, but not because they are killing innocent Israeli women and children. No, PETA is upset because the terrorist groups are using donkeys as a delivery vehicle. The PETA letter to Arafat shows no mercy or compassion for innocent humans that were killed:

I am writing from an organization dedicated to fighting animal abuse around the world. We have received many calls and letters from people shocked at the bombing in Jerusalem on January 26 in which a donkey, laden with explosives, was intentionally blown up.

All nations behave abominably in many ways when they are fighting their enemies, and animals are always caught in the crossfire. The U.S. Army abandoned thousands of loyal service dogs in Vietnam. Al-Qaeda and the British government have both used animals in hideously cruel biological weaponry tests. We watched on television as stray cats in your own compound fled as best they could from the Israeli bulldozers.

Animals claim no nation. They are in perpetual involuntary servitude to all humankind, and although they pose no threat and own no weapons, human beings always win in the undeclared war against them. For animals, there is no Geneva Convention and no peace treaty-just our mercy.

If you have the opportunity, will you please add to your burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the animals out of this conflict?

I am amazed that PETA can be so callous about the taking of human life, yet so worried about emotional distress of cats fleeing from Arafat's compound. Kerry Dougherty seems to agree.