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Certainly you must understand the reason we are skeptical of your motives. You joined yesterday, and have posted nothing until today, when you enter this thread describing an unjustifiable slaughter of innocent Israelis in their homes, and your position is to blame the Israelis.

You may say you are also "anti-Palestinian", but you are asking us to take you at yourword and ignore your behavior.

I wont seal my judgement yet, but forgive me if I think you are showing an immoral bias.

I wont seal my judgement yet, but forgive me if I think you are showing an immoral bias.
I have not 'defended' the Palestinians, nor have I 'defended' the Israelis. My personal feeling is that they are all acting like complete idiots. Regardless of ideaology, I'm for honestly looking at the realities that nobody denies. Peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only happen in 3 scenarios.
1. There are no more Palestinians
2. There are no more Israelis
3. They figure out how to get along

1 and 2 can be put aside as unworkable.
Nobody likes the G word.
Even if the one side was wiped out, any peace would be precluded by the reaction of the neighbors or the US.
You can hate the Palestinians or hate the Israelis, neither is going away.

So, the only option is 3.
Every suicide bomber and every Israeli bullet just pushes everone that much further away from reaching 3, which is the only way to peace
No matter who is right, creating kids grow up to become terrorists is NOT going to help

I do think that Sharon holds the keys to this more than Arafat, but not because I assign more guilt to one side or the other.
Israel is a real, cohesive entity, and Sharon is a real politician.
Palestine, for all the flag waving, is not.
I don't think Arafat has the support, ability, authority, or moral right to control the Palestinian 'state' in the same way that Sharon can with Israel.