Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Ohh man, I love it how people, me too sometimes, automatically take any disagreement and blow it up like you did in this post...
Anyway what I was saying is that palestenians have used terror for decades even before the recent explosion of settlements and all these dire econoic privations. If you remember back in the day, when he wasnt occupied with writing his nobel acceptance speech Mr Arafat was quite a terrrorist... So I think it's clear to me that the palesnians, unlike say gandhi, mandela or mlk chose the path of violence rather early. My greatest hope for peace is that they give up violence, because while tanks and helicopters of liberal democratic countries (and frankly thats what israel is) are great at defeating hordes of armed men and blowing up bomb factories they are pretty useless against unarmend non violent resistance. If the palestenians, and I mean all of them all the hizbullah/jihad groups and plotical figures, used non violence in striving for realistic goals, like for example not demaning destruction of israel, this would be over in short order and they would get a state and and gain mountains of goodwill even from america. I feel the emphasis is on them as its very hard to sympathyze with people who deliberatly target school busses.
I agree with you. My statements are rhetorical for a reason - to show the absurdity of looking at the Pal/Israel issue as a simplely a black and white issue. It is not. The Israelis are just as equally culpable.
Arafat is a terrorist..
and so is Sharon.
I'm amazed he wasn't charged with war crimes by the Hague regarding his involvment with the massacre at Jenin.
Basically, Sharon had his troops surround the refugee camp, preventing any one coming in (like reporters and the IRC), and locked all the escape routes, and then opened the gates for the Christian militia to walk in and do the killing.
For those of you unaware of this here are some
http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle0606.htmlhttp://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/07/05/9360.htmlhttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/sab-f22.shtmlhttp://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/07/30/p7s1.htmI'm amazed because the US had intercepts of communications between Sharon's units and the Christian Militia co-ordinating this massacre. Those intercepts are probably degauzed by now.
Won't be able to do a FOIA until 2013...
If the Palestinians totally disarm.... it will be tough for the Israelis to justify both their military and economic war against the Palestinians.