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Hi Fritz,
Thanks for your two posts. I don't think I have anything further to add to
the debate other than to say I feel for your Palestinian friend. My
approach was too academic and certainly not acceptable in terms of the very real
human crisis which has developed. The current situation is indefensible and - as
indicated by the sources supplied by Keith - even the status quo ante
appears more and more a legal fiction.
Keith is also on the button when he points out
that unless until we can add more light to this subject we are
only generating heat.
One minor point: I offered no quotations from the
Bible. If you reread my post you will see I carefully avoided that. In the
context it wouldn't have been appropriate.
I apologise and withdraw.
Best wishes,
Bob.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:14
AM
Subject: [Biofuel] Check your
Beliefs
Bob and all,
here is an answer of my goog friend Shadi
Hadjara,a Christian Palestinenser
on your Mail
Fritz
Actually, the tactic of deploying
suicide bombers against Israeli civilians
only started in 1994 in
retaliation to the Hebron Massacre. In March 1994,
at the peak of the peace
process between Israel and the Palestinians (where
Palestinians were
begrudgingly accepting to give away more than 3/4 of their
ancestrial land
and control over most of their sovreignty over their newly
formed
bantustans for peace), a Jewish settler in Hebron sneaks into the
Hebron
mosque during morning prayers. He unloads his automatic rifle on
the
kneeling crowd killing 4 dozen and injuring another 100. The first
suicide
bombing took place 3 weeks later.
As for rocket attacks, the
1967 six day war resulted in the murder of more
than 20,000 civilians by
Israeli missiles. The 1982 three month Israeli
invasion of Lebanon resulted
in the massacre of another 20,000 Palestinian
and Lebanese civilians by
Israel. So please don't squabble over a few
missiles in the arsenal of
resistence groups that only formed to defend
their respective communities
against a murderous enraged rogue state.
In the context of what took
place in the past, Palestinians would not have
fiercely opposed Israel if
the Zionist pioneers had decided to create a
state in Uganda. The fact is
that Israel was created over their land by
forcefully pushing them out of
their towns and villages. The precurssor used
to justify those atrocities
in 1948 was the Jewish suffering in the
Holocaust. When Europe de jure
accepted Israel, it was not because the
allied government believe in
Israel's right to exist but for, what I believe
is, the massive guilt of
allowing the devestation of the Holocaust to run
for so long combined with
the underlying anti-semitism that still remains.
So basically, Europeans
did not want the Jews in their midst but at the same
time felt that sending
them off to their "ancestrial" land is much more
ideal, humanely speaking,
than sending them off to the gas chambers.
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