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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (77799)6/30/2006 7:18:29 PM
From: CogitoRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
>>That's a very simplistic and questionable conclusion to draw. It implies that the only measure of effectiveness is if nobody tries to kill Jews anymore. Most counter-terrorism accounts I have read credit Golda Meirs efforts with keeping the count of Israeli dead by terrorism low; certainly far lower in the 80's than they became later in the 90's, when the Israelis were trying to be reasonable and negotiate.

If you draw a timeline with a histogram of Israeli casualties from terrorism, you will always see spikes and higher casualty levels at times of "peace negotiations", not at times of no negotiations and Israelis being aggressive.<<

Nadine -

Every time somebody blows himself up in a crowded market, it's done in retaliation for something else, like missiles being fired into some house in the West Bank, or a Palestinian village being bulldozed. I think that pretty much destroys the argument that killing terrorism will eventually end terrorism.

It's true that there are attacks during times of negotiation, because there are factions within the Palestinian movement that cannot abide any kind of peaceful settlement that allows Israel to continue to exist. It's a bad situation, and it's only exacerbated by attempts to respond militarily to every attack.

- Allen
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