Reply #21: but look at the results, LB....since the carnage of 2000-2002 with all the suicide bombers [View All]

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The separation barrier, checkpoints, and blockade have gone a LONG way towards saving literally thousands of lives on both sides, Israel and Palestine.

To go backwards and risk that kind of carnage again (and there's simply no empirical evidence that exists showing it wouldn't happen again) just makes the situation for both sides much worse.

It's a catch-22, is it not?

Is there a better more effective and moral alternative that would save literally thousands of lives?

Remember - the only thing stopping or slowing down Hamas rockets was OCL. If the blockade didn't exist before OCL, can you imagine how many more deaths would have resulted? And can you really blame Israeli citizens NOW for not wanting to lift the blockade, which would bring OCL part II sooner (and therefore bring on Goldstone part II)?

There is seemingly no better alternative.

It's a choice between one shitty option and another that's even shittier.

And if there are no better realistic and effective alternatives, why not admit it and stop slamming Israel and its people for a no-win situation?