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"Merlin Dorfman" <dorfman@green.rahul.net> wrote in message
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> 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
> same was true in 1967, 1973, and every year since then.  The lessons
> of Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King are clear.
>      But it just doesn't seem to be in their DNA to do anything other
> than respond with violence to anything that displeases them.
>      Additionally, it's not clear that getting a Palestinian state,
> alongside Israel, really represents the wishes of most Palestinians.
> It certainly doesn't represent the wishes of Hezbollah, Iran, and
> Syria, who sponsor Hamas and other terrorist groups.  And no amount
> of civil disobedience will lead Israel to just disappear.

For once, Mervin, you actually make sense...