JvD> Can Israel keep the Palistinians responsible for what the rest of the JvD> Arab world does or are they just using them as hostages if they do?
That is an entirely circular question whose answer goes all the way back to the roots of the violence. The Arabs are using the Palestinans as pawns. That's all they see them as. You don't see any Arab countries volunteering to take in Palestinian's do you? You don't see any Arab nations volunteering to make a Palestinian state do you? Where was the Palestinian state before the 7 day war? The bottom line is that the Palestinians are shooting and bombing random unarmed Israeli citizens the majority of whom support a Palestinian state. I believe polls show ~80% of Israelis support a Palestinian state eventually... Israel also doesn't really want to strike first against the Arab nations who are violating treaties by sending the arms, for the same reason that the USSR didn't attack the US when we were sending arms and aid to Bin Ladin in the 80's. However, _rumor_ has it that the reason why Colin Powel was in Damascus before he went to see Arafat was that Israel was about to level Syria because the rockets that Hezbollah was firing were supplied by and fired from Syria. The second rumor goes that the US has warned Syria that if they are linked to any major attack by Hezbollah, the US is not going to stand in the way of a major attack by Israel. All rumors, but they make sense...Israel can take care of Syria, while the US takes care of Iraq and Iran. Nice plan eh? I bet it would work too. It's also a plan everyone is working to make sure isn't put into action though. So the answer would be that Israel will hold both the senders of the weapons and the users of the weapons responsible if they have too. JvD> Although for the question of whether Israel has a right to occupy the JvD> territories it currently does all of the questions above need to be JvD> answered with "Yes" The "right" to occupy a piece of land has come up before, and I'd suggest you take a look at the occupation throughout history if you think that anything other than someone saying that this piece of land is mine and is willing to defend it is linked to some kind of intangible "right". Israel never planned to occupy the occupied territories, but they ended up with them out of necessity. I don't think the violence has ended since...it's just been on a smaller scale. -- jon ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
