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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (69400)9/11/2004 10:40:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793955
 
If you start the story in 1970, maybe. They had precious few choices before that, and since the ones they had after that were largely created by terror, it’s no real surprise that some of them thought more and better terror might get them more and better choices

How about if I start the story in 1920 with the rise of the Mufti? There were plenty of compromises open to the Palestinians then. But they had a leadership that consolidated its power by assassination, and not only intimidated the moderates who would have at least tried negotiations, it effectively prevented Palestinian Arab society from organizing itself. The strategy was terror and banditry by the Mufti's village fighters. It's certainly true that the Mufti's successes only convinced him he was on a winning track.

Ideology provides the leaders. Desperation provides the footsoldiers, and in most cases an antagonist: desperation is usually fairly easy to attribute, honestly or not, to an outside agent

You're saying that conditions that foment revolutionary movements are necessary to provide a recruiting base for the ideology. But "desperation" is still the wrong word. Places of real desperation do not foment revolutions. People are too busy trying to get enough to eat to have time for ideology in those places. No, the conditions you really want are of rising expectations which have been frustrated. 18th century France fit the bill. So does the Arab world today.
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