Originally posted by CM
My views are biased, to say the least, so this is my take on the issue. Sharon should have been hanged back in the 80s for war crimes against the Palestinians in Lebanon. Simple as that. He is not a leader, he is not a man of peace like Bush said so. He doesn't deserve to be leader and in many ways his policies are just moving the peace process back further and further. Before there were 7 dimensions to the peace process. This is number 8. He is dividing it even more, which will lead to resentment and even more reprisals. Look if people could get in before then can do so again. The wall is not going to stop anything. This is not peace this is pure and simple aparthied.
I totaly agree, but why doesn't anyone try this one:
My views are biased, to say the least, so this is my take on the issue. Arafat should have been hanged back in the 80's for terrorism acts against Israelis. Simple as that.
What I'm saying is, Sharon is a bad leader. Although I won't use your words, he should have held acountable in an international court for the massacares at the refuge camps.
Arafat is a terrorist. His own group has, and is, one of the most violent terrorist groups operating here.
CNN calls them militants.
militants act against soldiers. Terrorists act against civilians.
I totaly agree that the wall is wrong, but for different resons. The wall does stop bombers, as do military incursions. But they are wrong from a humane and political point of view.
2 suicide bombers.
A wall going up.
At least 26 Israelis dead.
2 Palestinians dead.
Now in response, the Israeli govt.
Has decided that they will take territory every time there is an attack.
This is unfair. Two suicide bombers do not account to to Palestinians. They are Palestinian suicide bombers. Just like Bin Laden isn't an Saudi, but a Saudi terrorist.
With the Hamas, Fatah, Jihad and PLFP all declaring open season to kill civiliens, issuing tapes on making bombs, advertising that 'if you die killing jews, Allah and the Koran promise you'll get to heaven', no response will kill more civilians.
I am just as much of a target as the people who are going to be evicted in Jenin.
I'm not willing to be a target any more.
This is not the mean Israelis against the poor Palestians. I won't say it's the other way around, but people here are, after 20 months, immune to caring about the Palestinians. After every single person in the country is within two degrees of separation of someone who was murdered, people want drastic measures to stop the bombers. The incursions worked, but again, were inhumane towards the Palestinians. Right now, most people couldn't care less about them.
This is not the walls fault.
Israels reactions were wrong, but they were
REactions. If Israel stops it's offensive, the terrorist have declared that they won't stop there's. If the terrorists stop bombing, then there'll be no reaction.
Even Saeb Erakat, chief Palestinian negotiator, and, if you watch CNN/BBC, the Palestinian ambassador to the press, says that the terrorists only hurt the Palestinians, although he disagrees on the method.
The Palestinian Authority has algedly told Hamas to stop, as they're hurting the chances for a state.
I am getting very carried away here, as someone who is personaly suffering from terrorism, and although, I am much closer the voice of reason than most Israelis, that autimaticaly makes me biased.
And Last, but not least- I would like to explain to all muslim members of this board (CM in particular) that nothing I say is directed at you and I don't want anything I say to be the cause of ill will between us.
