From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 07:51:08 MDT
>From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>
>I don't agree with John that it is primarily a religious
>conflict. The fight of the Palestinians is over land and
>freedom they have lost continuously over the last five or six
>decades up to the present time. I do agree that once conflicts
>like this start they take on a momentum of their own. What I
>don't understand is why we don't take more of an attitude as in
>Yugoslavia and demand an end to hostilities, enforce it by UN
>troops where necessary, and partition the land and resources in
>question equitably. Both sides have more than adequately proved
>they cannot settle this conflict in any reasonable manner (to
>say the least).
The land and freedoms the Palestinians have lost they have lost as
a result of a number of wars where they tried to destroy Israel.
The land was partitioned in a Solomonic fashion by the U.N. in
1948, the Arabs rejected the U.N. partition, and the day after
Israel declared it's independence 5 Arab armies attacked (Egypt,
Syria, TransJordan, Lebanon, and Iraq) along with the Arabs living
in Palestine. (there were no defined Palestinians at that time.)
The Israelis won, as they have the subsequent attacks resulting in
the "occupation" of now disputed territories.
The Israelis have demonstrated time and again a willingness to
negotiate on this, always rejected by the Arabs.
The U.N. does not of course have troops of it's own, it gets them
temporarily from member states, and none have shown a willingness
to get in the middle of this potential disaster.
We most certainly should not send troops there, it's a suicide
mission.
Brian
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