i just hope the world doesnt go the way you want it to go, or else we palestinians are done as a people.
"You Palestinians" have been struggling as a people and this was a choice Palestinians made. There is one absolute truth with all of this - Israel isn't going anywhere. Palestinians have to make a decision. Either stop playing the puppet to Arab and Shi'ite masters elsewhere (who aren't interested at all in a "free" Palestine and are willing to spill every drop of Palestinian blood to seek the destruction of Israel) and decide that co-existence is the only way to prosper. Any other choice will only result in more dead Palestinians. And the "House of Saud" and the bitter Iranian Mullahs aren't shedding tears for dead Palestinians.
What good does it do for you to reflect on any plan for co-existence? Do you control the pulse of your fanatics? This is an historical phenomena that is not exclusive to this situation. Palestinians and Israelis can come up with a million different plans for peace and always it will be the Islamic radical that chooses to remind all involved of why there can't be peace. And of course, waiting in the wings is the Israeli fanatic more than willing to retaliate with extreme measures at times.
There will always be Palestinians more determined to kill Israelis which will always result in a greater number of Palestinians dead in retaliation. And why is this? Because Palesitian terrorists (Oh excuse me...."martyrs" for
god) choose to endanger their population with their locations. A man that decides to launch rockets from a civilian neighborhood or chooses to use his family members as shields as he headquarters under their roofs is guilty and responsible for their deaths. A human shield isn't as simple as shooting from a crowd of civilians and running for protection behind them (which I have seen in Iraq and in Somalia). A human shield is simply a chosen location that endangers the innocent. The result is a propagandous machine that produced dead Muslims, which infuriates the fanatics even more and is used as a recruitment tool for youthful Muslims not yet militarized to the movement.
Of course, while we are all pretending that there can be "peace" between Palestinians and Israelis anytime soon (if at all), we should reflect on the fact that Palestinians can't even get along with themselves as the lords of terror from Saudi and Iran support and encourage the violence, though very seperately. Now, Palestine isn't alone with internal conflict upon their own. Muslims kill and slaughter each other in Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Lebanon, etc. There is a
deep rooted hatred between Sunni and Shi'ites (and it extends beyond this) that go back to the succession and birth of Islam. Kurds are shunned and massacred. Palestinians are regarded as second class citizens. How is anyone in the west supposed to find even ground with an Islamic people that can't even get along with themselves?
Salim Mansur is a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario,
and a Muslim, who believes that Muslim violence against Muslims is a symptom of politics whose origins may be traced back to the earliest years of the history of Islam and Muslims. He writes that this history became a closed cycle of group solidarity and tribal politics, and its victims continue to be Muslims who accept this history as the norm. He writes...
"The internal war within the Muslim world, which is as old as Islam itself, went savagely global in the final decades of the last century. On 9/11 this internal conflict among Muslims erupted inside the United States, awakening America to the international menace of radical Islam in much the same way as Japanese militarism did 60 years earlier at Pearl Harbor. They {the willfully blind or innocently ignorant} continue to insist that the violence of Muslim terrorists, despite being despicable, must yet be explained by reference to some "root causes" linked with the history of Western colonial imperialism."
Beyond the rediculous needs for people to maintain a sense of political correctness and blindness, the Middle East has an Islamic problem. If we waved the magic wand (which so many think exists) and made the west and Israel disappear, would the Islamic world find rest? No. I'm afraid that as long as Middle Eastern Islam remains fixed in concrete and continues to marry its centuries old traditions to the 21st century, "peace" between Palestinians and Israelis is largely a fantasy.
