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In ba.general Rich Corinthian Leather <inexplicable@mysterious.net> wrote:
> Merlin Dorfman wrote:
>> In ba.general Disgruntled Customer <nowhere@nowhow.com> wrote:
>>> Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> enscribed:
>>>> In ba.general Curtis Smallboner <curtis_smallboner@beer.com> wrote:
>>>>> Palestinian human shields give Israel pause By Joshua Mitnick
>>>>> Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor-TEL AVIV
>>>>> [ http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1120/p01s02-wome.html ]
>>>>> In perhaps the most effective act of nonviolent protest in the six-year
>>>>> Palestinian uprising, hundreds of Gazans forced Israel over the weekend
>>>>> to
>>>>> call off airstrikes on the residence of a militant leader by swarming
>>>>> the
>>>>> house as human shields.
>>>>      If the Palestinians resort to civil disobedience and passive
>>>> resistance, they will have a state within a couple of years.  The
>> 
>>> Been there. Done that. Got squat.
>>> Civil disobedience presumes your opponent has a sense of shame.
>> 
>>      Civil disobedience doesn't mean once or twice, it means a
>> continued campaign.  King and Gandhi knew that.  Can you cite a
>> campaign by the Palestinians, rather than just one or two isolated
>> incidents?
>>      The Jews are soft touches.  Much softer than the British Raj
>> in India or Sheriff Clark or Governor Wallace in Alabama.

> Not really. Do some research on the Stern Gang or Irgun, Jewish 
> terrorists groups, before and after the 1948 war of independence!
     
     Huh?  The subject of discussion is the use of passive resistance
and civil disobedience to get Jews who are in a position of power to
change their policy.  However, in contrast to the Jewish terrorists
of 1946-49, note that most Jews in Europe went to the gas chambers
with no resistance whatever.