>>>If the Palestinians disarmed, there would be peace -- for Israel. The Palestinians would still be stateless and would still be subject to Israel putting up walls, invading settlements with tanks, etc. (Which are certainly taken as belligerent acts by the Palestinians).
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>>As I said in another message, whose fault is it that they're stateless? Not Israel's. As for walls and tanks and all that, it's all been reaction to terrorism (whether you think it's the right reaction or not). Read the history of the area since WWII and see if you really think that Israel is generally belligerent.
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>>Tamar
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>If a person doesn't want to see the truth, he would not see it.
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>I concur with everything you said.


I am not avoiding the truth. I see it as I see it, and I do not come to it with a particular POV. As you do, and Tamar does, and Peter does -- and I AM NOT saying that judgmentally. I am looking at it through the eyes of a U.S. citizen with no known anti-Semitism who thinks Israel has caused the U.S. a whole lot of trouble. That's all.

I realize there is a difference when one is part of a group that has been discriminated against. I am fortunate enough not to have been.