RE: Another police station gone

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Jeffrey Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:46 AM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Another police station gone

> I'm a pretty smart person, well educated and as well read as I can be
> in foreign policy and international politics as I can be without it
> being a full-time career, but I really don't understand the policy
> Israel is currently enacting to control the violence - how does bombing
> a police station help the Palestinians control terrorism?

It does not. It will only lead to further violence, since Palestinian
extremists will certainly seek revenge for such an attack, especially if and
when Palestinians were killed in the attack.


> How does killing their leadership help the Palestinians to exert
> leadership over dissident factions?

It does not. It will only lead to further violence, since many Palestinians
will seek revenge for such killings. The only leaders that dissident
factions will listen to are that faction's leaders. If you replace Arafat
with one of those leaders, the other factions will still continue to fight
-- against said new leader as well as against Israel.


> How does continuing to use excessive force against an angry people
> engender anything other than more hatred and fear, leading to further
> acts of violence against the only targets they can attack and with the
> only means at their disposal?

It will not lead to anything else than more hatred, fear, and further acts
of violence. Every Palestinian attack will lead to Israel taking revenge,
and every Israeli attack will lead to Palestinians taking revenge. Unless
one side decides NOT to strike back and thus break the spiral of violence,
the violence will go on till there is nobody left to fight.


Jeroen

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