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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (143224)3/12/2002 5:13:30 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576344
 
Ted Sharon was elected because the Palestinians decided on violence not negotiations. When someone is attacking you you have to fight back. The only reason that this is not a conventional war is that the PLO knows it would have its head handed to it in that type of conflict, but it is a campaign of terrorism and low level guerrilla warfare.

Tim, Sharon got the job because he promised to take a hard line with the Palestinians. The Palestinians' tactics have changed little over the past 50 years.....violence has always been one of those tactics. However, the Israelis were fed up and thought Sharon could do the job.

However, its not working........the Palestinians feel they have legitimate grievances and won't go away. Even members of Sharon's party are frustrated and are looking for alternative measures. Its beginning to look like his tactics are not the right ones

The Palestinians could have had an independent country now, or if they thought the offer wasn't big enough they could have made a reasonable counter offer. If there answer is war and terrorism until Israel just cave then unfortunately a lot of Palestinians are going to die. For peace negotiations to work you have to have two sides that really want peace.

I've never said that what the Palestinians want is reasonable nor do I have the answer for peace in Palestine. The only point I was making is that violence and repression do not usually resolve the problem. The Israelis would have better luck with genocide.

The Israelis that don't support Sharon's methods mostly feel that either his strategy is right but his tactics are not executed well, or that a more hard line strategy is needed. The Israeli left has shrunk, the moderates now want to get tough. If a new election was held Netanyahu would probably become PM and he would push for a harder line then Sharon.

That's not true. In the past three days, Sharon has backed off from his hard line demands because the left and the moderates are disgusted with the current results. The Palestanians tactics are becoming more effective. All of Israel is on high alert. It can not remain that way indefinitely without doing serious damage to its economy and well being.

Its the Israelis who have much more to lose in this stalemate. When you can't afford a car, a house, a family, a life etc., losing that life is much less dear. That's the kind of enemy the Israelis and we and the Russians and the Indian Hindus and the English and the northern Irish are/have faced. Its not a good place to be in.

ted
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