The Israelis, absolutely understandably, dislike murderers hurling missiles across from Gaza and killing innocent Israeli civilians. I can absolutely and comprehensively agree with their misery about this, and their desire to stop it happening.
The intelligent response when things distress you is to try Plan A as a means of getting them to stop. If, after a while, Plan A doesn't work, you try Plan B, and so on.
Successive Israeli governments seem to have been pursuing Plan A as a means of "coping with the Palestinian problem" almost uninterruptedly for decades, and it has got them absolutely nowhere. Admittedly, Plan B hasn't got them very far either, but the intervals of Plan B have been brief and halfhearted before the brutalists have joyously gone back to Plan A again . . . and of course there's been no thought of a Plan C.
Why the brainless repetition of policies that, besides being completely inhumane, have emphatically been demonstrated not to work?
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Yeah. What amazes me is this:
The Israelis, absolutely understandably, dislike murderers hurling missiles across from Gaza and killing innocent Israeli civilians. I can absolutely and comprehensively agree with their misery about this, and their desire to stop it happening.
The intelligent response when things distress you is to try Plan A as a means of getting them to stop. If, after a while, Plan A doesn't work, you try Plan B, and so on.
Successive Israeli governments seem to have been pursuing Plan A as a means of "coping with the Palestinian problem" almost uninterruptedly for decades, and it has got them absolutely nowhere. Admittedly, Plan B hasn't got them very far either, but the intervals of Plan B have been brief and halfhearted before the brutalists have joyously gone back to Plan A again . . . and of course there's been no thought of a Plan C.
Why the brainless repetition of policies that, besides being completely inhumane, have emphatically been demonstrated not to work?