| Section 8, Israel can control the IDF but it shows little intention in stopping the reprisals - after all, Israel's first and foremost goal is the 'defense' of Israel. Where Israel stops and Palestine begins is anybody's guess...
Geoff, the hyperbolic platitudes of how the Palestinians won't accept any offer at all, or how Arafat - since he can't force Hamas to obey cease-fires - is a terrorist, is just as banal as the rest of the propoganda spewing back and forth and it muddles the entire situation as it stands. I know two Israelis and a Palestinian who got out with a Lebanese passport, and all of them want nothing more than peace - the Israelis were even willing to make further concessions for it.
The Palestinians don't want anyone else but Arafat - our latest debacle this past month showed that - but it's not like he can do anything but be a hardliner "the bombings will continue" because there are tanks at his door and demands for his exile. Some peace talks.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |