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On7/10/04 9:31 AM, WEBMASTER spake thusly: > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > ANNOUNCEMENTS and ARTICLES: http://pnews.org/art/art.shtml > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Rowland Scherman wrote: > >> I think it's a land grab. I think the bugs eating the carcass of the last >> Israeli will have a fight with the bugs eating the carcass of the last >> Palestinian. What's needed in this area are two different leaders. The ones >> they have now will never get peaceful with each other--they are hard wired >> NOT to. >> >> Rowland > > > I should likely leave others to answer this. Israel isn't the only one > building a wall. Since 9/11 there have been built many walls. If you go to > Washington and haven't been there for awhile you will be struck first at > all the barricades; Washington has become a walled city. So too the > Pentagon. I worked there 4 years. No longer can anyone enter a military > base without proper identification. I use to visit them all the time and > was never checked at the gate. No more. There is a wall being build along > the Rio Grande. It is being constructed to keep out illegals. There is > also a wall right now being constructed around the United Nations building > in NY. So many walls - but the only one that is objected to is the one > around Israeli cities. > > Yasser Arafat is in my view unfit. Ariel Sharon, however, is much maligned > for being a general who made hard decisions. That is what generals do. I > suggest you read the two biographies of Ariel Sharon to learn about the > man. One, the autobiography was of course his memoir. The unofficial bio > called "Warrior..." would provide you with more insight than you can now > get from those who hate him, which are all those who also do not know him. > > It was Ariel who Sadat (someone here said they admired Sadat) asked for to > show Egyptians how to make their farms work and he did. He went to Egypt > and as a guest of Anwar Sadat contributed a great deal to Egyptian > development and growth. He was also the most feared general who fought in > every war. And many would be surprised to see pictures of him as a dashing > young man (he wasn't always fat). But I do believe that for most the > assessments they make are not informed and do not add very much to any > greater level of discourse. > > Hank > Ariel Sharon may be a hero, I haven't read his book, but he loves those settlements--it's his power base. And he will never compromise enough about them to attain any peace that the existence of the settlements threatens. --- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================= http://pnews.org/vortal/ New World disOrder and Myth Busters http://g0lem.net/vortal/ Insane Planet and Wacko World http://g0lem.net/portal/ Bad-Ass Truth and TheGolemsPortal http://pnews.org/portal/ Naked Truth and PNEWS Portal http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (Wiki) http://pnews.org/ (Home) -DON'T FEED THE TROLLS- ============================================================= \_/ \_/
