Could you please enlighten us as to what weapons would be commensurate with fighting a terrorist paramilitary organization that uses civilians as human shields for its weapons factories and fighters? Would just sitting on the defensive and getting blown up whenever one of the terrorists slipped through, would that be commensurate? but as I remember, you don't like checkpoints either.
Last time I checked, Nadine, life, at least for me, did not divide itself neatly into binary choices. Do everything or do nothing. I find there are a great many shades of doing something that are well short of bombing civilian areas, destroying the Palestinian economy, and killing only god knows how many civilians who had nothing to do with the intifada. And thus building deep, deep, deep, pools of anger, deeper than before.
I repeat my belief that the extremes of both sides have taken over. The new Pal prime minister represents an ever so slight glimmer of hope. If the extremes were not in power in Israel, someone might try to help that light do more than flicker. Looks to me as if Sharon's people are trying to blow it out. |
