From: "Trent Shipley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tom provided a link to: > > http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.17F.BW.Dummies.htm > > It is very much consonant with my own thoughts on the matter
Yes, excellent article. There is a lot wrong with the process in Israel and palestine. There is blame on both sides. As Tom, and many other Jews and Israelis point out, the Israelis are not clean handed in the affair either. And, so much good criticism is also coming from the Israelis themselves: Here's a couple of articles in today's Ha'aretz English edition (Ha'aretz being an Israeli newspaper). `If you want terrorists, why destroy the houses?' Ha'aretz spends Independence Day Eve with an American-Palestinian family under siege near Ramallah. By Orly Halpern http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=153529&sw=guns `What kind of war is this?' It is still impossible to know how many people are buried under the ruins in the Jenin refugee camp, where the smell of decomposing bodies mingles with the stench of garbage and the scent of geraniums and mint. By Amira Hass http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=153462&sw=guns 'Sharon Has Brought The World Down On Us' - Yoel Marcus, Ha'aretz Daily http://www.rense.com/general23/sharonhasbrought.htm (I know it's at Rense.com where you'll find a lot of junk, but this is one of the pearls that appear and I can't get into their archive). Some more interesting reading: Meet Mr Whatever It Takes, By David Langsam http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/10/1018333371865.html The last paragraph or so is pretty much as you think, Tom. "Sharon Teaches Powell A Lesson Over Breakfast", Inigo Gilmore, The Telegraph - London http://www.rense.com/general24/less.htm "The pretence of peacemaking" Simon Tisdall, The Guardian Washington must accept its share of the blame for Colin Powell's abortive Middle East peace mission, writes http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,686415,00.html As for Camp David, try this article: "The brilliant offer Israel never made " David Clark, Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4390869,00.html And for a tie in with northern Ireland "Irish lessons in peace ", Niall O'Dowd, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,686934,00.html And this, from today's NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/opinion/19KRIS.html * > Of course in computer programming the last annoying 10% of the requirements > take 50% of total project resources. > And it's so often still left to the poor bloody techwriter to fix it up!! ;-( Unfortunately, a large part of the Mid East problem does boil down to "it's a training issue".
