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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 230.17-1.4%Nov 7 9:30 AM EST
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To: Fred Levine who wrote (70703)10/16/2003 10:41:52 AM
From: runes  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
<<It was the Arab countries who violated the imposed boundries, therefore going back to the conquest model.>>
...Oh, yes - the classic "They started it!" argument - a child's argument to be sure and one that is used to "justify" escalations like the words that become a shoving match that ends up a fistfight.

You still don't seem to want to acknowledge that the conflict is the result of a long chain of events which has progressively escalated from distrust and bad attitudes to the current environment of random acts of violence.
...And that both parties were participants in and are responsible the current state of affairs.
...And that they can sit and point fingers at each other from now until the end of eternity and accomplish exactly nothing.
...They live in a hell of their own making and that will not change until both sides learn to acknowledge and accept that fact.

Terrorism in the conflict -
...Terrorism is the systematic use of terror for the purpose of coercion. In that regard I would argue that the riots and attacks on settlers in the pre-Israel period were spontaneous rather than an orchestrated campaign unlike Ergun and the other Jewish group(s).
...But that is a minor distinction - at best. Violence is violence, murder is murder, death is death. The only reason that
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