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In ba.general Disgruntled Customer <nowhere@nowhow.com> wrote:
> Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> enscribed:

>>      Are you saying civil disobedience won't work any more?  I 
>> disagree completely.  With the world basically unsympathetic to
>> Israel to begin with, and billions of oil dollars for the Arabs
>> to use for publicity, any Palestinian passive resistance would
>> get saturation coverage world wide.  But it's just not in their
>> DNA to react to a perceived offense with anything but violence.

> Thanks for playing, idiot. It did get worldwide press, everywhere except the U.S. Israel has survived so far because it has unqualified support of the U.S. to keep its economy afloat and to keep it armed to teeth despite the what rest of the world thinks. Though if it loses another war like last summer, even that isn't going to let it survive.

     There was one incident, and even that was flawed--hiding behind
women, you know.  I'm talking about a campaign of passive resistance.
It will never happen.  Too bad for the Palestinians; if they did it,
they would get their state in a matter of months.  However, as cited
above, many/most don't want a state--they want to elminate Israel,
and neither a passive resistance campaign nor continued terrorism
will accomplish that.  Yet they push on...
     True enough that only American support has kept Israel afloat.
That doesn't make it wrong, however; are you one of those who assume
that whatever the US does is wrong?

> Israel locally like America globally was strong enough to force its will against reality; but reality was just waiting for exhaustion. Now it has come: it would be nice to if all you turkeys who supported Bush were the ones to suffer, but instead all Americans are going to suffer including Dixie Chicks and everyone else who told you so.

     "All you turkeys who supported Bush?"  Not me, dude.  Never.
     "I hated Bush before it was cool."