From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 11:48:40 MDT
>From: Amara Graps <amara@amara.com>
>>No one seems to be listening to the U.S. opinion. spike
>Do you mean the U.S. government's opinion? If that's what you
>mean, then No, here they've stopped listening. If my random
>conversations the last few days with people on street, business
>offices, in airports, etc are any indication, folks here (Germany,
>Italy) are pissed with U.S. govt's present and past actions in the
>Middle East. They don't agree with U.S. govt. supporting Sharon's
>current war on the Palestinians, that's for sure. It might be
>interesting for you to look at some newspapers printed outside of
>the U.S. You can find some in English from Google :
>http://www.google.com/news/
"Sharon's war on the Palestinians?"
Excuse me but some people have their facts all kittywhumpus.
The current cycle of violence began when Arafat walked out of the
peace process (itself possibly an act of war) back in Sept of 2000
after refusing to sign a plan that he negotiated, a plan that
encompassed something like 97%+ of what the Palestinians claimed to
have ever wanted. Ahud Barak had stuck his political neck way out
on that one, and then Arafat cut it off for him. Arafat then re-
initiated the intifada.
This led to the Israelis electing Sharon, but in effect it was the
Palestinians, in particular Arafat, who elected Sharon.
The intifada then culiminated in a series of acts of war, the most
important of which was the passover massacre.
When Arafat refused to deal properly deal with these attacks (as we
now know he was behind them) the Israelis had no choice left but to
put an end to these attacks themselves.
This is statecraft 101.
Brian
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