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To: carton253
The logical conclusion to your position is that the situation can only be resolved with one side exterminating the other. And, in fact, that might be true.

I think that's unacceptable and that an interim solution has to be found until such time as the Palestinians (or arabs as a whole) come to the conclusion that Israel has a right to exist in peace.

55 posted on 02/03/2003 5:58:34 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
Well, I understand your point. But, I think it will be a cold day in hell when the Palestinians (or the Arabs as a whole) come to the conclusion that Israel has the right to exist in peace. We've been waiting for 100 years.

I think that right to exist is going to have to be forced on them.

Do I think the Palestinians have to be exterminated? Absolutely not! I don't think I even suggested it in my post.

What I am saying is that we are at war whether we realize it or not. The problem is not Israel nor has it ever been Israel. It is about the humiliation of Islam. That is where the fight is. 9/11 wasn't the beginning, nor will it be the end. Wars have to be fought and won. Half-measures... retreat and peace talks don't do any good when one side is not for peace but extermination.

Putting a Palestinian state on Israel's border without addressing this deep seeded seething hatred of the West by the Arabs will only lead another war. But Israel is being systematically weakened by those in the West who think if Israel gives and gives and gives that somehow the Arabs will be satisified. And the Arabs watch our attempts at appeasement and think we are weak and ripe for plucking.

Israel must be strengthened. So must the West. It is war! Declared on us by the Islamic fundamentalists whose cause and strength grows with each passing day.

56 posted on 02/03/2003 6:16:36 AM PST by carton253
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