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In reply to the discussion: Will there be peace if Palestinians lay down their arms? [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)27. Well.
You've got me there. The inanity of trying to use a single quote to refute an obvious reality demonstrated over years of conflict is beyond me. I wouldn't even know where to start. I could point out your misunderstanding of a quote taken out of both it's immediate political and historical context. Or cite the effects that suicide bombing, qassams, and the second intifada had on Israel politically and the Oslo process at large.
But I'll instead just suggest to you that perhaps you should consider that any single quote might not be sufficient to serve as evidence of much of anything at all.
Especially a quote referencing the results of events I described. Not the causes. (Like I said, backwards.)
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This war is about the tunnels that Palestinians dug out from under the border
JDPriestly
Aug 2014
#14
There will be Palestinian subjugation, which is really Israel's goal, don't you think?
ProgressiveMuslim
Aug 2014
#21