OK, just by going through a few emails I can already see that this board is
quite naive when it comes to the conflict in Israel. The US military for
Israel benefits the US much more than us in Israel and furthermore the
suppose from US military isn't Israel's sole basis for military I'm afraid --
far from it. And, in fact, if you were to pick up a completely unbiassed
history book about Israel (let's say written by a British citizen that has an
objective view) you would see that there have been many occasions where the
US has in word supported Israel yet in no other way helped the Israelis to
fight against her neighboring aggressors. I do feel the Palestinians have
been treated very unfairly in the past, but if any of you had been living in
Israel over the last 5 years I promise you that you would see things from the
Israeli point of view. The Palestinians a little over a year ago where
offered by our former prime minister, Mr. Ehud Barak, Gaza, large portions of
the West Bank, and ALL of Jerusalem to found the Palestinian from. Yassir
Arafat rejected that offer because he had just recently re-ploclaimed jihad
and could not loose face at the time (when world political opinion was much
less in Israel's favor). At the time I have just come to Israel and was
HIGHLY left winged. Having been here for a year and seeing this development
followed by 13 months of suicide bombings, shootings, and molitail cocktails
thrown at me when I wanted to try to visit my friends in Arab settlement,
I've come to have right winged Israeli views, note that I am an American
citizen and mearly study IT management in Israel.
I'm not saying that Israel always does the moral thing -- far from it, but I
highly doubt that if everyone on this board was in fact living in Israel, or
somehow in Israeli government that you would have the same feelings or that
you would make hardly as good decisions as the Israeli Government does at
this time. Also, I might as also add that the UN has in fact violated it's
own laws (in Samalia, I believe it was), that the US hardly ever keeps to UN
laws (way too many things to site offhand, if someone wants examples email me
privately and I'll produce a list for you), and that the UN really should
have no say over Israel at this time anyhow, seeing as how they've never done
a thing to aid Israel in clearing up this problem that wasn't sheer
lip-service.
To be sure the Palestinians have a right to their own bit of land, possibly
their own nation. However, if they were to once again rise up against
Israelis, at that point Israel would have the right to blast them back to
1967, no questions asked. I look forward to everyone blasting me for my
views with their media slanted prejudices, but before you do I just want to
assure everyone that I am much more concerned with discussions over Quality
and that I feel that this discussion board should be more geared in that
direction than in the area of political debate. If there are any
Palestinians on the list I would like to privately correspond with you before
we openly debate on this forum to help assure that all petty infighting is
kept to a minimum and that Quality is our principle preoccupation in
discussions herein. Finally, thank you all for having heard me.
Jae Angel.
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