MaxedOutMama
Friday, April 22, 2005
NOFP & SC&A
No Oil For Pacifists and Sigmund Carl And Alfred (whose blog I can't get to for some reason - you try and let me know) continue the Israeli history lesson in a debate with Andrew Schamess in these very detailed comments.
I read MEMRI's translations of various Arab political statements. While Arafat was saying one thing about Oslo to the international press, he was saying another to the Palestinians. I hope with his passing that a new attitude will slowly appear, but no one can make peace without a war of conquest unless both sides want peace.
I read MEMRI's translations of various Arab political statements. While Arafat was saying one thing about Oslo to the international press, he was saying another to the Palestinians. I hope with his passing that a new attitude will slowly appear, but no one can make peace without a war of conquest unless both sides want peace.
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There's an old saying- Follow the money. The PA, et al, have a lot to lose with any peace deal.
The Palestinians are being screwed again, by their own- and they know it.
As to why, well, connect the dots.
The Palestinians are being screwed again, by their own- and they know it.
As to why, well, connect the dots.
Don't mean to be querulous, but decreased corruption and increased accountability would be nice--but no more than a tertiary concern.
Plainly, injecting honesty and elections into the PA would benefit ordinary Palestinians. Yet the real problem is attitudes shaped by two generations of propaganda, innuendo and hearsay. So long as Palestinian newspapers claim Jewish pastry is made from the blood from Christian and Arab adolescents and Palestinian television is too anti-Semitic even for the French, money won't matter. As SC&A observed, the Palestinians chose Intifada though they surely knew Israel promptly would bar their only income--jobs within Israel.
Palestinians are being screwed again. But widespread self-recognition of their plight seems improbable absent access to accurate information.
Israel cannot unilaterally end the current conflict. The path to peace in the middle-East starts with freeing the Palestinian people from ignorance and autocracy. Put differently, the remedy is liberty.
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Plainly, injecting honesty and elections into the PA would benefit ordinary Palestinians. Yet the real problem is attitudes shaped by two generations of propaganda, innuendo and hearsay. So long as Palestinian newspapers claim Jewish pastry is made from the blood from Christian and Arab adolescents and Palestinian television is too anti-Semitic even for the French, money won't matter. As SC&A observed, the Palestinians chose Intifada though they surely knew Israel promptly would bar their only income--jobs within Israel.
Palestinians are being screwed again. But widespread self-recognition of their plight seems improbable absent access to accurate information.
Israel cannot unilaterally end the current conflict. The path to peace in the middle-East starts with freeing the Palestinian people from ignorance and autocracy. Put differently, the remedy is liberty.
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