To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5406 ) 12/31/2003 2:34:46 PM From: rrufff Read Replies (2) | Respond to In order to have peace, you must have justice. I agree but nobody is going to negotiate in the face of cowardly suicide attacks against civilian targets with only marginal military value. The Isra'Elis have yet to put anything reasonable on the table for the Palestinians. That is untrue. Arafat thumbed his nose at Clinton and a deal which would have brought meaningful nationhood to his people by now. The American Government has become the biggest impediment to the peace-process in occupied Palestine since they are financing the colony with one hand and trying to short-change the Palestinians with the other. This is your propaganda which you constantly repeat but fail to support with facts. Arafat is the impediment, not wishing to give up the source of his billion<s> of pilfered funds, much of it from America. It is in Sharon's interest to keep the hostilities alive. Just this past week or so, without any violence directed towards Isra'El or its citizens, Sharon is back at his assassination game. In the meantime, the settlements continue to expand, for "natural growth" reasons given. Unlike you, I can be critical of Sharon and feel his timing is awful. It's easy for me to be critical in the safety of America, not truly knowing what it's like to live under the threat of a proportional 9/11 daily.
