<just keep pounding away at them>
And keep saying they are for peace.
But only if the only side yields first.
So, Sharon is ready to make peace...after Hamas ends suicide bombing.
To which Hamas replies, "Oh, yes, we are peace-lovers too. Just as soon as the Israelis dismantle all their illegal settlements, then we'll think about a cease-fire."
What I don't understand is, if the Israelis truly intended on colonizing and permanently occupying the West Bank, why didn't they just expel the entire Arab population in 1967? There is no other way they can hold that land. Alternately, if they are serious about a land-for-peace deal, why did they put all those settlements there, which makes giving up the land impossible? I can't believe they are so self-delusioinal, as to believe they could leave the Palestinians in place, and not face a nationalist revolt eventually.
They've got themselves stuck now, in an endless cycle of violence. And their reflexive defensiveness, automatically rejecting all criticism (or labelling it anti-semitism) makes a solution even more difficult. The clock is ticking, they better figure out something, before Hamas gets a nuclear weapon. Which is only a matter of time.
And we face precisely the same situation in Iraq, except we have the option of leaving when we are defeated. Which is also only a matter of time. |
