On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:15:09 -0700, Bill Bonde
<sstderr@no-spam> wrote:
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>"Martin W. Smith" wrote:
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>> Bob Tiernan wrote:
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>> > Martin W. Smith wrote:
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>> > > alohacyberian wrote:
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>> > > > Literally dozens of Arab Terrorists, including Yasser
>> > > > Arafat have made that assertion. Are you saying the
>> > > > Arabs are lying? It hasn't been tested because the
>> > > > Israelis won't let the Arabs or the terrorists test it.
>> >
>> > > It hasn't been tested, because Israel has never made a fair
>> > > offer to the Palestinians.
>> >
>> > Gotta be careful. Israel will get only *one*
>> > chance to test this. Unlike the old USSR
>> > the Israelis have virtually no wide expanse
>> > into which they could retreat and regroup
>> > and resupply in the case of a massive attack
>> > by an Arab coalition taking advantage of
>> > the Israelis reducing their security on
>> > a chance.
>>
>> That isn't going to happen because, as I said, if and when Israel
>> decides to take this step, support from the US and the EU will be
>> immediate and overwhelming.
>>
>So Israel should take steps to make itself insecure militarily in the
>hopes that europe will completely change course and support it? Europe
>didn't do this after Israel gave all that land back to Egypt.
Good point that Martin is careful not to address. It's a typical
rationalization by the lunatic fringe to justify their Israel-bashing.
Martin's pie-in-the-sky and pulled out of his hat assertions mean
little. That he can continue to deny that the future of the so-called
"Palestinians" has always been in their own hands, makes him
intellectually dishonest but I'm not sure if it yet rises to the level
of actual anti-Semitic racism.
I read a quote by another poster that crystallizes the
Israel/Palestinian problem beautifully:
"If the Palestinians laid down their arms tomorrow, there would be no
war. If the Israeli's laid down their arms, there would be no
Israel".
Until Schatzer, Martin and their ilk recognize this conundrum that
Israel faces, the endless cycle of violence will
continue.............endlessly.
ALOHA
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Bill Bonde wrote:
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> Thomas wrote:
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> > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:15:09 -0700, Bill Bonde
> > <sstderr@no-spam> wrote:
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> > >
> > >>
> > >> That isn't going to happen because, as I said, if and when Israel
> > >> decides to take this step, support from the US and the EU will be
> > >> immediate and overwhelming.
> > >>
> > >So Israel should take steps to make itself insecure militarily in the
> > >hopes that europe will completely change course and support it? Europe
> > >didn't do this after Israel gave all that land back to Egypt.
> >
> > Good point that Martin is careful not to address.
> >
> And that he won't address.
You are way off course again, Bill. I did address that point. It is a
red herring. The United States of Palestine would make Israel stronger
militarily, not weaker.
martin
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