[lit-ideas] Re: are we not talking anymore?
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:44:30 -0400
Ursula wrote:
(Interesting that you mention
trains running on time -- everything runs when, and only when, the
Israelis let it run).
That's true. Israel has developed into a military power. The Palestinians
live next door. If you lived next door to a great military power -- also a
great economic power -- who was interested in peace, not war, would you
propel rockets across the border, kidnap soldiers and have your children
blow themselves up in shopping malls and busy restaurants?
Why? Is that to assert your desire for self-determination?
It doesn't make sense if their purpose is to have an independent nation, a
sovereign nation. After all, Israel has a big influence over the economy.
Why not make friends with someone who can help you, your friends, your
region grow and flourish?
Meanwhile their children read disgusting things about Jews in their
textbooks, are indoctrinated into seeing their neighbors hatefully, are
encouraged to blow themselves up in crowded places, buses on the way to
work, restaurants, malls.
Granted, Israel could have been kinder. They haven't reached out enough.
They are the more powerful of the two. When Palestinians tunneled into
Israel to kill and kidnap, didn't they expect a response? Why wouldn't they
expect that Israel -- like a wounded animal -- would strike back, bring the
battle to their doorstep, disrupt their infrastructure. I can't imagine what
life must be like in the desert in Gaza without water or electricity in this
hot weather for a million-and-a-half people.
Israel's response was predictable.
Is this the behavior of sane people? Didn't Hamas know what Israel was
likely to do? Why encourage that? This is the government that's there to
help the Palestinians?
With a government like that, who needs enemies?
Stan
Portland, ME
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:04 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: are we not talking anymore?
Let's not forget that Menachem Begin also had a terrorist background.
Sometimes people rise to the occasion -- if there's any occasion to rise
to. Israel has so destroyed the infrastructure and so chopped up the
territory and so prevents normal economic commerce that no government
could bring a semblance of normality. (Interesting that you mention
trains running on time -- everything runs when, and only when, the
Israelis let it run).
Ursula
Stan Spiegel wrote [in part]:
The problem here is that Hamas was elected by the people. Hamas --
heretofore a terrorist organization -- is now in charge. As the
government (not a terrorist organization), they're in charge of making
life and the economy work for the Palestinians. See that the roads are
safe, that trains get there on time.But as a terrorist organization
that's not their purpose.
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