At 08:42 AM 1/24/02 +0100 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO wrote:
>To some extent, yes. They are living under Israeli occupation and as such
>have the right to fight Israel.
And this is not at all tempered by the fact that the entity known as
Palestine is the *agressor* in this conflict, having four times viciously
attacked Israel, with the goal of Israel's destruction, and having refused
to sign a peace treaty with Israel (thus remaining in a state of a war of
agression against Israel)?
In my mind, entities that engage in a war of agression and then are
defeated have a duty to sign a peace treaty, not a duty to continue waging
that war by any means possible until they win.
JDG
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