Imagine, if you will, this scenario.
One country's ruling political party sends para-military forces to spend months digging a tunnel under the country's border with another country. Upon completion, they are to kill two of that country's soldiers, and kidnap a third, removing him from the sovereign territory of the neighbouring country.
This would be an act of war, unquestionably, right?
Herald Sun: Israel rejects hostage deal [28jun06]
I ache for the Palestinian citizens, I really do. But at some point, this is a population that's really going to have to smarten up and put the boots to some of these leaders of theirs, because they always end up paying dearly for all these extremists that fester in their midst.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
An act of War
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I wish you were correct in saying that it is the Palestinian leadership that is to blame. I used to think that too. But now we have to examine all the facts and your thesis that it is only the leadership doesn't really hold-up; it is mere wishful thinking in my opinion. By blaming the leadership we make excuse for a popular public disposition that we don't want to believe.
There were two more kidnapping since. : (
I too don't think it's just the leaders. Violence and hatred have spread like a cancer throughout so many Islamic societies (not all) that it has become part of their self-created reality. If you look at the history of Islamic culture with a few exceptions, it's a pretty sad state of affairs.
Oh I don't know that I can fully relate to that Lane.
Muslims were studying Plato and Aristotle, Euclidian geometry, and building a tolerant society in Andalusia at a time when my ancestors were hacking one another to pieces with broadswords on the broken remains of the Roman empire.
I think that in some measure - and not to be too condescending about it - people are somewhat sheeplike. That doesn't excuse the Palestinians in any way. But leaders lead, and most follow them. Imagine if you will that a Gandhi figure had emerged in the sixties, and not Arafat. It is difficult to imagine the situation would still be what it is today.
I do hold Palestinians accountable for this - their society is in their hands; will it learn to be a good neighbour, or will it lend succour and support to a nihilist and self-destructive ideology? If it chooses the latter, Israel is not obliged to put up with it...
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