Isn't it [past] time to once again remember the story of
the two women who claimed one baby and King Solomon's
judgment?
Is the question, each day, becoming more and
more: Do the Israelis love Palestine enough to kill it?
(Obviously there are many good Israelis and many good
Palestineans, but they are not the ones who seem to
be able to control what happens. History is not
primarily about the good will of little people.)
Also: As for the suicide bombers et al. killing children:
I think if I was an Israeli who was determined to
fight for my country, I would send my
children off to their relatives in a safe place like
the United States -- like the Londoners shipped their
children to the countryside during the Blitz. Being
dead right is still being dead even if you are right,
but why do it to your children?
\brad mccormick
Christoph Reuss wrote:
>
> Ed Weick wrote:
> > But haven't the Jews always been in the wrong
> > place? It isn't too surprising that they must now feel much as they must
> > have felt in the Warsaw ghetto or in the many other ghettos that they were
> > forced to live in.
>
> An Israeli officer fighting in the occupied territories told his colleagues
> that they must "internalize the lessons of earlier battles [, i.a.] how the
> German army fought in the Warsaw ghetto." (quoted by Amir Oren in Ha'aretz,
> 25 January 2002)
>
> Indeed, the Palestinians' destitute bantustans and refugee camps look
> a lot more like a ghetto than Israel does. A ghetto is under the
> power/jurisdiction of the "surrounding" enemy (who created the ghetto
> in the first place) and under the administration of a puppet leader --
> all this does not apply to Israel, but does apply to the Palestinian
> ghetto(s).
>
> > What you have is an impossible situation. Israel is where it is; the Jews
> > are where they are. But that's an impossible place to be. Even if they
> > were very very nice to the Palestinians, even if they moved their
> > settlements off Palestinian lands, there is absolutely no guarantee that the
> > leaders of Islamic Jihad or Hamas would like them any better.
>
> Even if Palestinian children were very very nice to the Israelis, even if
> they would never throw a stone against an IDF tank, there is absolutely no
> guarantee that the leaders of Israel would like them any better -- they
> would keep bombing and demolishing their houses and keep talking of
> --and implementing-- "transfer" (euphemism for expulsion).
>
> > Arafat might
> > like them better, but he no longer counts. Much as one wants to dislike
> > Sharon, one can only wonder if there is an alternative.
>
> Gush Shalom might like those kids better, but Gush no longer counts -- worse,
> Sharon wants to take them to court for treason (for writing a few letters to
> IDF officers), the only deed for Israelis that is punishable by death in
> Israel.
>
> Just for some balance...
> Chris
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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