| No side is prepared to hold out for peace, both are eager to jump on any excuse to start killing again. If you look at Northern Ireland, our government didn't keep sending tanks and bulldozers everytime the IRA set off a bomb. The Israeli government has to stand by the peace process for longer than one or two attacks. If the Israeli government didn't retaliate, then the Palestinian people, not the militants, would see that the Isr. gov is not trying to eradicate them, and then the militants would lose support. Its only because the lives of Palestinians are so precarious that they support terrorist attacks. And, as anyone who knows their guerilla warfare, terrorists cannot win if they do not have the support of the population.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |