Israel's Kafkaesque "Matrix of Control"...

[bridgit]

'Finding an equitable solution to the intractable, festering decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Gordian Knot that must be cut to achieve peace overall in the Middle East. Today, no solution is in sight nor are any serious efforts planned to find one despite occasional rhetoric to the contrary like what's now being heard from Washington with similar disingenuous echos inside Israel.

Palestinians know otherwise from long experience. They've heard this siren song before. It's the same old tired refrain going nowhere and not intending to. The so-called "road map" goes nowhere, and the "peace process" guarantees only more conflict because Israel wants it that way to justify its harshness and refuses to discuss the most fundamental Palestinian concerns. Unless they're resolved there can never be peace. They include a sovereign integral independent Palestinian state, the Right of Return, status of Jerusalem Palestinians want as their capital, settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) that must be removed, and established borders. They also include ending what Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said once called Israel's agenda of "refined viciousness" against the Palestinian people. Since Hamas' Palestinian Authority (PA) January, 2006 legislative electoral victory, there's been nothing "refined" about it.'

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=LEN20070131&articleId=4658

[aquart]

1. "Refined viciousness." And his opinion of bombed markets?

I am completely in favor of giving the Palestinians what they want. What do they want?

Have fun.

[bridgit]

2. there is no "fun" in the ME...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=124&topic_id=165280&mesg_id=165280

[Phx_Dem]

3. More revisionist history

Bridgit, you don't seriously think that an essay that asserts stupid shit like the quote below is credible?

"With its leaders voicing these kinds of sentiments, it's no wonder Israel imposes harsh treatment on a people it equates with wild animals and insects it wants to eliminate."

[bridgit]

4. i myself have never been made to live beneath any such requirements...

as are imposed routinely upon individuals in the ME on either side of so protracted, and contentious an issue; and my sense is that i would not do well while under such a regime being persuaded to perform in such a way that others might consider specious at best...though it is my belief, as is the belief of many; that an approach to any viable peace includes the addressing of outstanding issues in and around Jerusalem that cry out on a routine basis therefore,

Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem

[Porcupine]

5. The theology of force has replaced the theology of god

in Israel. They somehow seem to believe that if they apply enough force they can get what they want and still pretend to be reasonable. It's not working for us in Iraq either.