To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (17274 ) 11/5/2000 5:58:07 PM From: goldsnow Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 17770 Excuse me but, at last count, there were about 150 dead, less than 10 of them were Israelis. And then you have the audacity to call them mass murderers? >>>> George you lost your train of thought....The discussion was centered on Moslem Fundamentalism and the danger it poses to its own people, never mind the World.... You have been touring a wrong beach (Greece) What can you learn in Greece? About Turkey atrocities? <g> What is going on in the Middle East largely indeed have not change much from the dark ages...The forces that mass kill Western tourists in Egypt, Hezbollah, Hamaz and many others would surely plunge their own countries and entire region even further into deep despair... Russians did not have to invade Afganistan, French to invade Algeria to find-out...Israel does not have a choice, Rabin, Sharon, Arafat, Clinton, just passing names..this is no nbetter solvable than Kosovo...You really need to tour Yemen, Algeria, perhaps even Turkey to find-out what kind of people we are talking about.... As for the casualties, you seem to have far better understanding of the reasons why Albanian "Stones" throwers were killed... Not that it is not o'key to feel sorry for the Palestinians or any other group of people that must live in desperate corners of the World, or even take their side but it helps to understand that the World is not black and white....Israel has to use force to prevent need for a greater force....I hate to break it to you..<ggg> but this is a war for the territory that neither side will ever give-up...Kosovo, Cyprus are not that different, except Serbs can go back to Serbia and Greeks back to Greece, Israelis will have to go into the Sea...