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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (99074)5/25/2003 11:25:50 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Settlements kill nobody. It is the low grade war, which the Palestinians started, that kills people. Apologists for Palestinian terror always conflate the two. I noticed you did not answer my comment that Khalidi obviously feels that the Palestinian response to "occupation" has been appropriate and acceptable under the circumstances.

You've done your usual trick of trying to change the subject again. Sometimes I simply don't reply because I'm too busy; others because I grow tired of the trick.

Khalidi's point, at this level of the conversation, is not about who is more moral but how to understand the conflict and reduce the level of violence. The Palestinian grievances are the occupation and the settlements which progressively convert the West Bank into Israeli territory. Those grievances produce suicide bombers, etc. So goes the argument. Almost all treatments of the conflict from the Israeli side, including the American media now which parrots this argument, sees the conflict as only suicide bombers. Khalidi does us the justice of putting both sides before us.

As for your comments about who are civilians, the numbers are so disproportional that your rejoinder could hardly change this. The issue here is that the American media doesn't even broadcast those numbers.

As for your line echoing the comment that what's needed is a spiritually defeated Palestinian population, I see it as reflecting the increasing demonization that takes place in these conversations. And the degree to which the violence spiral continues.

The only international actor that could stop it is the Bush administration. And it's too focused on getting reelected to do anything about it. No votes to be gained by being an honest broker in this conflict.
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