Since we don't have control over this TV station, all we can do is rearrange things so that Palestinian children have something to live for. I read some years ago that when Arafat chose, for tactical reasons, to deactivate Black September, he had a problem about what to do with a bunch of single men trained to kill on command. The solution? They held a big mixer party, let the ladies know that any children born to marriages with these guys would have paid health insurance, scholarships, other goodies, and soon found that the former veterans wouldn't accept assignment out of their area, for fear of arrest and separation from their families.
Do that for all of Palestine, as the current prime minister is endeavoring to do, and this stuff would be laughed off by its target audience. Now if only Bibi could figure that out.
I think you have an overly high opinion of Abbas, who likes to sound like a moderate for the west, but has his own history of intolerant utterings.
We should rearrange things for Palestinians? What is it WE should do for Palestininans? Why is it that We have to be the benefactors of the whole world? Didn't they dance in the streets on 9-11?
I have no doubt at all that IF Abbas thought it reasonably feasible to slaughter half the Israeli population, and subject the rest to modified serfdom, he would gladly do so. However, I also have confidence that he genuinely recognizes his chances of doing so are less than nil, while some in Hamas and Hezbullah still embrace the dangerous delusion that they could pull it off in time.
It is his current prime minister who seems to be doing the real work of building a viable Palestinian economy and security force, a really hopeful development in my seldom humble opinion.
Why should we do anything for the Palestinians? Because, if we do it right, we can live in peace, and so can Israel. Why should the patriotic heroes of the Irish liberation struggle sit down with the bigoted bloody murderers of the Orange lodges? (Or, reverse the rhetoric if you please). Because, neither one could totally subjugate the other, and if they could just relax, take a deep breath, listen to each other for once, and have a couple of superpowers breathing down their necks, they could find better things to do with their time and energy, as well as reducing the incidence of funerals.
Wow. That's evil. No other word for it.
ReplyDeleteIt's hardly isolated.
ReplyDeleteI wish you weren't right, but you are.
ReplyDeleteSince we don't have control over this TV station, all we can do is rearrange things so that Palestinian children have something to live for. I read some years ago that when Arafat chose, for tactical reasons, to deactivate Black September, he had a problem about what to do with a bunch of single men trained to kill on command. The solution? They held a big mixer party, let the ladies know that any children born to marriages with these guys would have paid health insurance, scholarships, other goodies, and soon found that the former veterans wouldn't accept assignment out of their area, for fear of arrest and separation from their families.
ReplyDeleteDo that for all of Palestine, as the current prime minister is endeavoring to do, and this stuff would be laughed off by its target audience. Now if only Bibi could figure that out.
I think you have an overly high opinion of Abbas, who likes to sound like a moderate for the west, but has his own history of intolerant utterings.
ReplyDeleteWe should rearrange things for Palestinians? What is it WE should do for Palestininans? Why is it that We have to be the benefactors of the whole world? Didn't they dance in the streets on 9-11?
I have no doubt at all that IF Abbas thought it reasonably feasible to slaughter half the Israeli population, and subject the rest to modified serfdom, he would gladly do so. However, I also have confidence that he genuinely recognizes his chances of doing so are less than nil, while some in Hamas and Hezbullah still embrace the dangerous delusion that they could pull it off in time.
ReplyDeleteIt is his current prime minister who seems to be doing the real work of building a viable Palestinian economy and security force, a really hopeful development in my seldom humble opinion.
Why should we do anything for the Palestinians? Because, if we do it right, we can live in peace, and so can Israel. Why should the patriotic heroes of the Irish liberation struggle sit down with the bigoted bloody murderers of the Orange lodges? (Or, reverse the rhetoric if you please). Because, neither one could totally subjugate the other, and if they could just relax, take a deep breath, listen to each other for once, and have a couple of superpowers breathing down their necks, they could find better things to do with their time and energy, as well as reducing the incidence of funerals.