re: #304 Naso Tang

No I wasn’t equating the act of an individual with that. I was equating acts of governments. However if you think that there is no solution other than to retake the land and carry out an ethic cleansing as you seem to suggest then there is no hope for peace, ever.

Whatever opinions we share in terms of how the Palestinians behave, your comments that they have no rights in the land they have always lived in is ridiculous.

The issue here is not their rights to live, it is how they must act in order to do so.

This is a circular argument and is why Israel is forced to bow to the world. Fact is Israel has made many concessions over the years to make peace only to get kicked in the groin afterward. Anyone who thinks there will be peace in the middle-east while Israel still exists is hopelessly clueless. What is ridiculous is that a tiny strip of land that *is* historically and verifiably been inhabited and ruled by Hebrews for thousands of years is too much for the world and the very large neighboring Arab countries to bear. What was once called Palestine also includes land now occupied and controlled by Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. Those countries aren’t being forced to give up any of their vast land for a Palestinian state, why is it that Israel must?

Israel constantly is being attacked and vilified for justly responding to those attacks, at what point would we say enough is enough and go to war for keeps? We would *never* tolerate what the Israelis are asked to tolerate…