To: redfish who wrote (7200 ) 3/22/2004 6:01:15 PM From: Raymond Duray Respond to of 173976 That's a load of crap. Israel is engaged in a vicious occupation which is in complete violation of every standard of human decency and vast swathes of international law. Israel is an outlaw state. It is engaged in a vicious repression of the Palestinians whom the Israelis hope to displace by making life so harsh for the Palestinians that they are forced to abandon their centuries old homes and livelihoods. If you would only take the time to educate yourself, you'd realize how naive you are in supporting a criminal operation like the Likud/IDF war criminal cruelties. Here's a start: ISRAEL'S STRATEGY OF INTENTIONAL TERRORISM In Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharatt's personal diaries, there is an excerpt from May of 1955 in which he quotes Moshe Dayan as follows: "[Israel] must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no - it must - invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge...And above all - let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space." Quoted in Livia Rokach, "Israel's Sacred Terrorism." Source: The Origins of the Palestine-Israel Conflict, p. 15 cactus48.com cactus48.com """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" After you've absorbed the lessons of "The Origins of the Palestine-Israel Conflict", then you can move on to the truth about how Israel became the worst rogue state on the planet, written by an Israeli: "A History of Modern Palestine : One Land, Two Peoples" by Ilan Pappeamazon.com Lest you wonder, this is published by the Cambridge University Press, not some bleeding heart Arab polemicists, the last time I checked. *** The most astounding thing about the American public today is how utterly ignorant they are about the situation in the Middle East. America is on the wrong side of history, or at least the crazy Charismatics and blustering Bushes certainly are.