Well, I'm not normally one for quoting M.Moore, since a lot of his work tends to serve it's own agenda, however, in Dude, wheres my Country he makes a very valid point....
America is capable of, at less cost than the current Iraq War projections, promising and deliverig the facilities to provide clean water to every living person on the planet. How many people, do you think, would want to fly planes into their buildings if they were known for doing that, rather than such things as Pol Pot etc?
Sometimes I wonder if it is worth the old practice of looking up the leaders of the warring factions in a room 'with neither food nor sleep' till a single decision is made, either because they agree, of the strongest willed person has out-surviveved all the others
Seriously though, you must not forget part of the Isreali governments reaction to Sharon wanting to remove settlers. It was no worse, no less condemning of it's own people than Palestinian reactions to those they see as 'sympathisers'. Some even called upon Israeli troops to disobey direct orders from Sharon.
There are factions on both sides that
want to hate the others, no one side is to blame, that is the utter tragedy of all this. While Israel thinks it is Palestine, and Palestine thinks it is Israel, and I fear that you are no less being manipulated by your governments as we are by ours.
