Well said. There seems to be a feeling of "If only Sharon would do ....such and such..." then peace would surely blossom.
Short of abandoning Israel I don't see the next steps. The new Palestinian PM is already saying he won't authorize force against Hamas. Hmmmm. Do they intend playing good cop, bad cop. Recall my posting about the Altalena. "There is one milestone in particular that bears study today David Ben-Gurion's fateful decision in 1948 to end Jewish terrorist activities and bring armed splinter groups under government control. When Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, met on Thursday night, one of the biggest issues they discussed was ending the terrorism of renegade Palestinian groups. Abbas said that by next week he hoped to have a pact with Hamas, the main Palestinian Islamic party, to halt violence against Israelis. Sharon and his aides say a cease-fire pact is not enough, however, that what is needed is to arrest and disarm the militants. What Israelis increasingly say is that the Palestinians need their own Altalena. " Looks like this is not going to happen. I say give the peace project 50 years and don't keep messing with the ME. arthur -----Original Message----- From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:16 AM To: Karen Watters Cole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Harry Pollard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Because We Can Karen, honeychil', Lawry says I'm tenacious, so what the heck! Sharon is out. Bill Ward is in with 90% of the vote and awaiting the next wave of suicide bombers. He obviously wants peace. What should he do. One, two, three, and perhaps four. Should Bill talk to Hamas? What if they won't listen? How about simply bombing the hell out of the refugee camps. Civilians will be killed, but so will the Hamas leadership. No? Then, let's hear one, two, three, and perhaps four. Bill, you and I will get this thing done if it kills us. Let me re-phrase that. Harry **************************************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: (818) 352-4141 -- Fax: (818) 353-2242 http://home.attbi.com/~haledward **************************************************** _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
