"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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First, getting rid of guys with automatic weapons and a reputation for
killing people who disagree with them isn't so easy.

True. Just that the normal person to fanatic ratio is so high. I guess
a bunch of this is just that the leaders and heavyweights are in with
the bad guys.

If reasonable folks like you and me had instead been raised in a refugee
camp, with no nation to call our own, with violence and poverty all around
us, with a powerful neighbor dropping bombs every time some terrorist group
blew up a bus or whatever--who knows, we might be on the fanatical side too.

Third, if Americans
typically don't back away when someone attacks them, then why expect the
Palestinians to be any different? History teaches us that bombing people
is
just as likely to **** them off and make them pull together rather than
discouraging them. Every time an Israeli airstrike kills women and kids,
Hamas gets another busload of recruits--no wonder the *******s hide their
weapons in schools and mosques.

This is more along of the lines of the stuff I don't understand. I
agree it one thing to rise up, but something entirely different to join
the people bringing down the pain.

What if they're the source of social services for your family? What if they
replaced a corrupt and incompetent administration which primarily took care
of itself? What if they're the only ones fighting back against what you
perceive as your enemy? I'm under no illusions about Hamas, their charter
reads bat**** crazy, they are fanatical thugs. But people as desperate as
the Palestinians will turn to desperate measures. Sooner or later the
Israelis have to climb down a little bit and stop building settlements all
over the place, and the Palestinians have to back away from their total
refusal to admit Israel is there and not going away. They're both going to
have to give up something, or they'll be bleeding forever.