(August 6, 2014 at 5:21 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Gaza has not that advantage; the polity is divided, and so long as one segment stays extremist, Israel will likely be reluctant to extend ny aid. That means that after a devasting defeat, the Palestinians will be politically divided, economically barren, and angry.
The Palestinians have no one else but themselves to blame for the misery they are encountering. As I earlier stated, war is ugly, and since the Palestinians are resolved to continue their armed struggle, then they need to accept the suffering that comes along instead of crying baby to the international community. Who are they really fooling, if not but themselves.
Quote:Were Israel to kill the million or so Palestinians as you suggest, without subsequently aiding the survivors, the devastation would only worsen the conditions which are driving the extremism in the first place.
That doesn't sound like a good recipe for peace, to me.
The killing should only stop when the Palestinians are ready to wave the white flag and surrender unconditionally. It would be lunacy for Israel to help the Palestinians when these people have not deflected one iota from their open and stated policy of destroying the state of Israel. Only after an unconditional surrender from every part of Palestinian society can there be talks of peace, reparation and cooperation. Any other recipe is doomed to failure.
Quote:Any generalizations about Palestinians as an ethnicity have nothing to do with my post, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't impute such fallacious thinking to me any more. Thanks.
The generalization was mine as it was unmistakenly a logical conclusion from your post. But thanks for indicating that you had other stuff in mind.
