Without the usual, “Why can’t we all just live in peace” naivete:
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#1 by James G on May 26th, 2007 - 2:32 pm
Sorry, Gav,
Still seems a bit naive to me.
Israel/Palestine:
What would happen to Israel if Israel decided to unilaterally disarm tomorrow?
Now ask the same of the Palestinians.
I think I know to which group of people I would rather belong to.
#2 by Gav on May 27th, 2007 - 7:11 pm
They don’t need to disarm. They need to withdraw from the West Bank as they have from Gaza and they need to allow movement in and out of Gaza towards Egypt to be entirely controlled by the Palestinian authorities.
The fact that we know they won’t take advantage of that and improve their lot and develop into a first world country which, eventually, disposes of the hatred which their religion unfortunately seems to create in that region, is neither here nor there. Let the “it’s Israel’s fault” claim be less and less credible.
I don’t pretend that the Israeli-Palestinian problem can be solved all the time the Palestians are training their children to pathologically hate Jews and all the time they attack the Israelis using mortars etc, but the peace will not come either while Israel kills Hamas leaders using missiles that inevitably kill innocents in the area.
Someone must take the moral high ground and it is only Israel that can do that because there is no single authority in Gaza or the West Bank who can stop it.