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that's idealistic of you alanSunday 02 Feb 2003
author: kristen
how do you propose to integrate, alan?
both u & the author are idealists, but offer no practical solution to the problem, only blame & criticism in a pointless one-sided fashion.
"Nor will security for Palestinians be achieved by killing Israeli civilians. But there will be no end to these great losses until the concept of security is revised to serve Palestinians as well as Israelis. "
--how to do this???
th e Palestinian Authority was arnmed to handle security.
we see what happened there; they became totally integrated with terrorist organizations like hamas.
how do u so coveniently gloss over this?
they had a chance to try things legitimately. they blew it.
while i think that diplomacy has to be used , israelis need a viable partner to deal with.
in order for the palestinians to get a fair deal, to repair their communities & live & prosper, they must, must, must take their share of responsibility & lose the terrorism & violence as a means of getting what they want.
there can BE no other way. they've prroven that they are not willing to be equal partners, now they have got to pull it together & get serious & get rid of those old codes of conduct that are outdated , backward, & dragging them down.
alan, u must know that fighting an internal menace --& u know that the terrorist organizations that are dedicated to the obliteration of israel & whose sworn enemy is the jew will not disappear after integration-- will be nearly impossible, & that's one good reason why integration right now is now an option.
don't treat the palestinians as imbeciles; they know what they need to do to follow a path to their salvation & prosperity. the fact that they cannot pull themselves together to do so, but cling to futile violence as a means to solution, ensures tragedy for all....