Originally posted by aldo_14
It's not hard to find a reason for wiping them out.... i guess you have to applaud Israels restraint in this case, in not doing exactly that.
Yeah, cause that would be a real "Final Solution" for the Israelis. Huh, and I thought history never really repeated itself.
I'm also sure that exterminating the Palestinians - man, woman and child - would both catch all the perpetrators of terrorism without harming
any of the innocent
and earn the lasting gratitude and friendship of the Arab world.
Now, to turn off the sarcasm tags...
A few days ago I saw you talking sensibly about combating terrorism by removing the factors that breed it. What happened?
The problem in the Occupied territories seems (to me, and I admit I'm hardly an authority) to be that the Palestinians regard the IDF as an illegal army of occupation, and settlers also as illegal...um, what's the word - invaders, I guess. In addition, the Occupied territories are hardly the most affluent nor the most democratic places in the world, and people either have no means of escape or live in grinding poverty for which someone has to be blamed. That someone can easily become Israel through canny propaganda or through fact - after all, shutting down the airport, putting up electric fences - these can hardly be beneficial to the PA economy.
Finally there's a huge power imbalance. The Palestinians regard themselves as fighting a war of liberation (and I know they strike outside the strip and the Occupied Territories, but in WW2 to liberate France, the Allies hit Berlin, Cologne, Dresden - you get the idea. Anything to get the enemy to pull back). However, they don't have the armaments to liberate themselves in a face-to-face war. Thus they're driven to use barbaric methods of slaughter just to get international attention and turn public opinion in Israel (they hope) against the occupation of Palestine.
The way out?
Well, if I knew that I'd have tried to tell someone in government, wouldn't I?
