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| quote: | Originally posted by George Smiley
Just out of interest, under what conditions do you think this scenario would occur? (ie. what would make them stop the violence for deals to be made?) |
Simple: get rid of Arafat. The terrorist groups are all his puppet groups anyway. If you get rid of Arafat, you pull the rug out from under this .
Reforms to the policies would also have to ensue, but I think that would happen naturally: changes to their education, withdrawal of rewards for "martyr" families, etc.
I don't vie for the possibility of someone worse being elected - it doesn't get any worse.
Edit: it does bear mentioning that Israel should also appoint someone who's actually qualified to negotiate, like Barak and Rabin were doing. The reason they put someone like Sharon in power was because they knew that negotiations would never succeed - IF Palestine were to rid itselves of extremists and terrorists, it might be worth appointing a more peaceful Israeli PM... or at least to delegate the peace negotiations to someone else, perhaps someone from the U.S.
I also really don't think we should be talking about this in this thread. Every time you post in one of these, you ignore the horror of the act being committed and turn it into some futile debate about how Israel is really responsible for the warlike situation. Can you not for once take a look at the situation and say "Hey, that's sick, regardless of whatever conditions they may live in?"
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