----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Where are the European hypocrites?
> Dan Minette wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:07 AM > > Subject: Where are the European hypocrites? > > > > > If it's not necessarily anti-Semitism to criticize Israeli actions (and I > > > certainly don't think it necessarily is), then what is keeping these > > filth from > > > criticizing Hamas equally? Now *THAT* I am convinced certainly IS > > > anti-Semitism. (And no semantic games, please, about how the Arabs are > > themselves Semites. > > > We all know what "anti-Semitism" means.) > > > > This is probably the wrong place to get an argument on this. If you want > > one, I think you will see a lot of people on Culture that will blame Sharon > > for the Hamas actions. ;-/ > > Bush certainly wasn't happy with the Israelis taking the action they > did. That's fair enough. Sharon's immediate strong reaction played into Hamas's hands...especially since it missed its target and killed civilians. It made the US's job brokering peace a lot harder. But, in principal, its hard for me to object to targeting the leaders of a group that deliberately kills civilians as a means to stop any peace short of the destruction of Israel. It is easy for me to oppose, in principal, the actions of those leaders. So, I'll agree that Sharon's actions were not helpful. It would be much better for the US to insist that continued refusal to crack down on the militants would stop the peace effort, and that is is meaningless for the Palestinian leadership to say its bad without arresting the perps and keeping them in jail for more than a token week. Then, if the killings don't stop, attacking Hamas in a slightly more targeted manner would be acceptable. > There is no easy solution. No, but its easy to see what the solution must be. It needs to be close to the plan that was on the table in 2000. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
