> If Arafat seeks to make a genuine peace with Israel, he will be removed by > Hamas. Even if he doesn't make peace, he has to appear to be pursuing it (in > English) while supporting the jihad (in Arabic).
Like I said in a later message, the bombers are pretty much acting independantly of anything he says. Israel must know this. Yet, like you said below, they insist that the bombing has to stop and expect Arafat to make it happen. Does everyone see the contradiction here? What I was saying is Israel needs to understand that the bombing is not going to stop. So, if you are going to be getting attacked anyway, then instead of wasting time with retalitory attacks that just inflame the problem, look at the root cause of the attacks and do something about it. > The Israeli government says it can't negotiate a true peace with Arafat at > the same time his people are bombing Israeli civilians, and asks him to rein > in his organization while they discuss peace, but the bombings continue. See above. > Recall that Syria abstained from the recent U.N. Security Council vote > endorsing a Palestinian state because of the words "alongside Israel". What's this have to so with palistinians bombing Israeli civilians? > The British Mandate for the partition of the territory into Jewish and > Palestinian states was thwarted by Jordan. The refugee situation was created > by Jordan, and perpetuated by Arafat and the PLO. This doesn't change the fact that Israels current strategy will never work and they need to try something else ... like actually trying to find a way to solve the root cause of the tension. Same thing with the Palastinians. Instead of blowing things up left and right, they need to be thinking up an acceptable compromise for both peoples .. that is, if they are even able to. > Most people seem to be apologizing for the terrorists and criticizing > Israel. Well, you can't have gotten that from my message. I think that "They are both to blame and neither seems willing to stand up and do what needs to be done." is pretty balanced and doesn't favor one side over the other. Personaly, I think they are both going at this in a half-assed manor and no one is really trying all that hard. This whole thing is about placing blame and not about fixing the problem. The blame is shared so the blame game just goes on forever and nothing gets accomplished, except a lot of killing. > I would be happier if there were more balance in this discussion. I think I've made my balanced stance perfectly clear. > Just my opinion. > > -Ben ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
