At 09:38 11-06-2002 +0200, Ilana Halupovich wrote: >From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as expected ><<Very bad idea. It would mean that as long as there are Palestinians >willing to blow themselves up and take a few Israelis with them, there >will never be a Palestinian state. At the rate Hamas has been going >lately, the deadline will be a few centuries from now quite soon.>> > >Ilana >Don't you think, that may be only *then* they will deserve the country >of their own? You wan Israel to put itself in bigger danger, that it is >now, but when it came to finding place to only 13 murderers I didn't >hear *you* government volunteer.
Huh? What do you mean by "finding place to only 13 murderers"? That sentence makes no sense. ><<It will not work, not even when everyone in the Palestinian leadership >would want peace and a state that does not include all of Israel. It is >by definition impossible to control everyone in a population to such an >extent that you can guarantee none of them will ever kill anyone else.>> > > >Ilana >Wrong. There are almost no terrorist attacks in Arab countries. The fact that there are *almost* no terrorist attacks in Arab countries actually proves my point. Apparently the various Arab governments cannot control their populations to such an extent that they can guarantee none of their citizens will ever kill anyone else. Back to my initial statement. Apparently it was not entirely clear what I meant, so let me rephrase and be more specific. It is by definition impossible for the Palestinian Authority to control everyone within the Palestinian population to such an extent that the Palestinian Authority can guarantee no Palestinian citizen will ever kill an Israeli citizen. This applies to any government and any population. For example, the Israeli regime cannot guarantee that no Israeli citizen (in Israel or in a settlement in the Occupied Territories) will ever kill a Palestinian. I think this is a good thing, BTW. If a government *could* give such guarantees, it would mean their country would be a police state that makes countries like Iraq, the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany look like havens of democracy and freedom in comparison. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
