Foreign Affairs Discussion Group Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: tekboy who wrote (23859)	4/8/2002 2:30:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

there's going to be some serious hatred lurking out there in years to come, and if that ever intersects with the availability of nuclear weapons, it could be bye-bye Tel Aviv. That's been true for 54 years already. The more this is a religious conflict, the less the realities of the border struggle have to do with the case. In fact, the hard-liners would answer Robert Wright that the cause for the huge upsurge in hatred is not the occupation per se, but the Oslo peace process, i.e., that Israeli peace offers made Israel seem weak and accomodating to the hard-liners on the Arab side, so instead of returning compromise for compromise, they just revived the idea of getting rid of Israel altogether. I tend to agree that the false hopes of the peace process have fanned outrage on both sides, and they coincided (perhaps it wasn't coincidence) with the Arab world's attempt to deflect all its problems onto Israel and the US. Israel would be in a far better position right now if it had just stayed hard-line. There's a very large segment of the Arab world that regarded Israel's willingness to negotiate over land as an admission of the basic unrighteousness of the Israel's existence.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next