> Halupovich Ilana wrote:
>
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:46:09 -0700
>
> From: Jeffrey Miller
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brin-L)
>
> Subject: Another police station gone
>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> <snip>
>
> <<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 helps Israelis to control Palestinian terrorism
How?
> <<How does killing their leadership help the Palestinians to exert
> leadership over dissident factions?>>
>
> Hoping against all hope that new leadership would not support
> terrorist acts?
What guarantees are in place? Governments - /rational/ governments -
don't act on hope.
> <<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?>>
>
> I thought about asking you to define "excessive", but then - the
> simple answer is - "because it helps". The simple fact is - intifada
> started after Israel run from Lebanon and Palestinians saw, that
> Israeli Army is not as strong as they used to think it to be.>>
excessive:
- assisinations
- rocket attacks against targets of questionable value in heavily
populated areas
- tank attacks against rock-throwing mobs
- economic strangleholds through restriction of free movement creating
ghettos
I don't believe either side is right, but it seems so horridly wrong
what your government is doing from over here.
> <<Could somebody explain it to me? Seriously, if I'm missing
> something, I would very much like to be informed..>>
>
> You using logic. There is nothing logical in religious war. As I see
> it - Palestinians want to destroy my country. And my government is
> busy trying to save Palestinian lives instead of thinking of it's
> people first. Two more Israelis murdered last night.
>
>
> Ilana from Israel
Yeah, I'm sorry we won't be able to talk about this :(
-j-
