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Politics : The Castle
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To: TimF who wrote (1690)6/13/2003 7:44:44 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (3) of 7936
 
I wouldn’t write much about attempts to crossbreed a llama with a vacuum cleaner
LOL!!!

One thing that comes to my mind about this is that I had given up on the possibility of peace in Northern Ireland (I am of Irish ancestry). I thought the only peace would come when one side essentially exterminated the other. Happily, it appears I was wrong.

Maybe we can be wrong about this one too.

I was in Ireland recently. I mentioned to a cabbie there that, given the atrocities committed by the British against the Irish people, I was surprised that the two nations were not at war.

His response: "At some point you have to forgive and forget or we will never have peace." He's right.

Maybe, somewhere down the road, that point can be reached with the Israelis and Palestinians: The losses on both sides will have been so great that they would rather live in peace than continue the fight.

In this latest incident, the Israelis were after what could be considered a legitimate military target. But there have been other, previous ones where they simply leveled homes as a lesson to the Palestinians not to tolerate fighters in their midst. And yet where would those fighters be but in Palestine? And if Israel is so desirous of peace rather than conquest, what of those settlements?
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