[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: headache vs. cancer

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
headache vs. cancer
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1153444724.shtml


   [1]Sandmonkey on peace in the Middle East:

     I kept thinking that if arabs really wanted Peace, than those are
     the people that we really should be talking to, building bridges
     with. I had the same thought when those people were the majority in
     Israel, right after Rabin's assisnation, and how the whole country
     at the time was evenly divided between peace with the arabs and
     just going to war with them, and then Netenyaho won and you know
     how that story ended.

     But then I rememebrd that we- the majority of us anyway- don't want
     peace with Israel, and are not interested in any real dialogue with
     them. We weren't then and we are not now. The Entire peace process
     has always been about getting the land back, not establishing
     better relations. Even when we do get the land back, it's not
     enough. People in Egypt lament daily the Camp David treaty that
     prevents us from fighting. In Gaza they never stopped trying to
     attack Israel. In Lebanon Hezbollah continued attacking even after
     the Israeli withdrawel. And the people- the majority of the arab
     population- support it. Very few of us are really interested in
     having any lasting Peace or co-existance. I mean, if our left is
     asking for war, what do you think the rest of the population is
     thinking?

     I think that the Israeli want peace with us because they don't want
     their lives disrupted. They don't want to have the IDF soldiers
     fighting in Gaza, rockets coming into their towns from Hamas or
     having to go to wars against Hezbollah to get their soldiers back.
     I think they want peace because they want their peace of mind. They
     view us as if we were a headache. We view them as if they are a
     cancer.

     And this is why there will never really be any peace in the
     middle-east.

References

   1. http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/07/17/our-left-their-left/