NP - Palestinian Moderate Leader's Home Shelled

[David Morris]

--- calbert at tiac.net wrote:
> David:
> 
> > Your unstated assumption would then be that if he was not a moderate
> > he would be fair game for assasination  (even if there were no
> > "massive fire" comming from that location)?
> 
> You can make that my "position".......I would consider such actions 
> as taking the war to the back yard of the generals.....had they 
> targeted "Just Plain Joe", I'd be right behind you with the 
> condemnations.....

This the central point demonstrated by this article:  Israel has essentially
been waging war against the PA while maintaining a PR front to the contrary. 
That is not "supposed" to be what they are doing.  If this were a declared war
the Palestinians would all be gone by now.

The violence of the Palestinian population has been primarily against occupying
forces, with a few acts of terrorism on Israeli turf.  Of the 500 or so who've
died in the current uprising less than 10 (I think) have been Israelis.

> > His status as a moderate
> > was reported in the New York Times, not impeachable, but pretty
> > reliable.
> 
> The Gray Lady is nothin' but a soiled dove.....but
> I would still like to know what YOU consider to be "moderate" in a 
> context in which dissent is treated pretty harshly.

First of all, I resist the direction of this question, because it is to be used
as a measure of who is "fair game" to be mortared.  The only fair game in this
context are sources of enemy fire as was claimed for justification in this
instance.

As to the relative evils you point to below, those are beyond the control of
any party in this discussion.  But implied in this equation is the question for
the Palestinians:  Would you rather be ruled by Israel or one of "your own?" 
To this they have made their choice clear.  Whether Israel would grant them
more civil rights if they just accepted their rule is beyond the point, and
Israel would not ever grant them full citizenship - They would soon be
outnumbered.  Eventually Israel must either grant statehood or eject the
population and annex.

David Morris

> Even a "moderate" arab nation like Egypt jails those Egyptians who monitor
its human rights situation.
> 
> The issue goes to the heart of the mid-east conflict. The biggest 
> problem obstructing progress is the lack of "accountability" among 
> the leaders of those arab nations who have determined to use Israel 
> and the presence of Jews in the region to distract their own 
> populations as well as the rest of the world from their totalitarian 
> ways. There is an undeniable double standard at play here, and it 
> shades the debate in a fundamentally dishonest way (and no, I do 
> not accuse you of doing so here).....
> 
> 
> love,
> cfa
> 
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