On 13-Jan-09, at 10:41 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Jan 12, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Michael Luscombe wrote: > >> Israel has traditionally provided humanitarian support to the area, >> but has reduced those efforts considerably since Hamas took power, >> either as some form of "tough love" to get Palestine to produce a >> sensible government, > > Yeah, after both the US and Israel pushed them hard to have > elections...they elected the "wrong people" and we immediately started > punishing them for it. Way to build trust. > >> or just to turn up the heat on the situation and >> provoke a confrontation. Guess which happened? > > It's also elections time in Israel. Starting a fight with the > Palestinians is a traditional way to garner votes. It worked for Ariel > Sharon, it worked for Benjamin Netanyahu, it working for Tzipi Livni. > > Both sides are serving the Palestinian people poorly, and it's not > being helped by the religious fanatics on all sides. > > But as a practical matter, Israel is creating more militants with > every bomb. --
All true. Everyone has a justification, even if it's just fear. Evolution needs a few more eons to clean out the appendix and the lizard-brain. -- Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
