tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post1720906413555998007..comments2024-03-28T04:39:55.959-07:00Comments on A Little Reality: Israel and Palestineknighterranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886831250521410342noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-15149674203998161732015-12-17T07:36:37.393-08:002015-12-17T07:36:37.393-08:00"The walls are supposed to reduce the chances..."The walls are supposed to reduce the chances of terrorist attacks within Israel and I have no doubt they accomplish that goal. "<br /><br />No one likes to see a wall but when it cuts the number of suicide attacks in buses, restaurants and other public places from weekly to almost none, that wall has a right to stand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-46277896864622060122011-09-28T19:56:34.329-07:002011-09-28T19:56:34.329-07:00Another view or two are that the only way things w...Another view or two are that the only way things will ever change in the Middle East is when there are no Arabs or there are no Israelis; or more likely, a significant environmental disaster (our toppling of the global weather paradigm is a good possibility) vastly reduces the number of people there and the remainder either totally wipe out the other or learn to survive together.<br /><br />I see the current situation as without solution and without honor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-30569079212440356092011-09-26T13:15:16.323-07:002011-09-26T13:15:16.323-07:00WHERE ARABS HAVE LIVED AS A FREE PEOPLE FOR OVER 1...<b>WHERE ARABS HAVE LIVED AS A FREE PEOPLE FOR OVER 1000 YEARS</b><br />For so long as any Israeli is allowed to treat an Arab as an alien in his own country and for so long as he is allowed to restrict the movement of the father or mother of the child who is born there, then that land will cry out in pain until there is freedom from oppression and until Arab olives grow once again by the banks of the river Jordan, where the patriarch Abraham once walked in the ancient cities of Hebron and Jerusalem, in the land of Palestine where Arabs have lived as a free people for over a thousand years.<br /><br />There has always been a majority Arab population between the Mediterranean sea and the Jordan river and there must be so again now, and in the future, in order for there to be an end to bloodshed and a lasting peace. _____________________________________Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com