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Psychologically what you're suggesting is the euqivalent of the US volunteering to stop being a militarised state. Not. Gonna. Happen.

They are encased in fear, shrouded by it. Their only recourse is to lash out at anyone or anything that threatens it. the only solution to threat is force and repression. It's the only language the untermenschen understand.

"Never again" has come to mean "let us do it instead", yet they cannot recognise this. Palestinians are just a "dehumanised other" that cannot be reasoned with, bargained with, negotiated with. Simply bombed and shot if they fail to comply with their imprisonment. To even suggest such a thing would be treaonable, remember Rabin was assasinated for even suggesting a resolution with the palestinians.

I fear for Israel. The rhetoric, if not checked, will lead, obviously not to Death camps, but a slow attrition of the land available to Palestinians until they have nowhere to go but the desert, to die as the Armenians did under the Ottomans. Abandoned without water; not murdered, but still conveniently dead.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 11:09:57 AM EST
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All you say is true. Yet, there are discontinuities in everything, and these days they come faster and faster.

I fear for Israel, you say. Yet it is the Armenians who died. And the Ottoman empire is no more. (Wasn't much by then either.)

Will that be the demise of Israel, you insinuate? Or will they just go on, not unlike Andrew Jackson after the long march orders?

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 04:49:34 PM EST
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