Date Posted:14:54:23 03/10/02 Sun Author: Cynthia Boaz Subject: Re: Hardliners In reply to:
Keith
's message, "Hardliners" on 14:37:57 03/08/02 Fri
Keith, I was thinking about this too. We have essentially told Israel that they must negotiate with their "terrorist" enemy, but we are allowed to bomb the crap out of ours.
I don't advocate a strongly militaristic solution in either case, but the hypocrisy is pretty stinging.
>After listening today in class about Sharon's hardline
>approach towards the Palestinians, I just kept
>thinking how similar the US approach is to acts of
>terrorism. Israel has suffered countless terrorist
>attacks. We have suffered one. Yet it justifies us
>to go to a full-scale war. Why don't we allow Israel
>to do that? As of now, our tactics seemed to have
>worked. Al Qaeda is in hiding, the Taliban gone, and
>many other terrorist groups shaking in fear. So why
>can't Israel go prevent groups like Hamas or Al Fatah
>from ever rising again by just destroying them the way
>we do?
