Originally posted by: SamurAchzar
Originally posted by: Craig234
Question for the rationalizers of Israeli policies:
For the sake of discussion, assume the facts of Israel having a policy of brutal restriction/oppression against Palestenians, and of allowing illegal settlement growth, and assume that any attacks by the Palestenians on the far better-funded Israel military are utterly pointless, where the attackers will simply be killed.
What are the legitimate actions available to the Palestenians to resist the wrongs?
Are they limited to non-violent street protests that have no effect on Israeli policy, to watching Israel take their land, to accepting the embargo as a dhild dies without medicine, to getting killed by 'attacing' an Israeli military group where they stand no chance whatsoever? Whle the world does nothing to help, quietly accepting Israel's policies?
Don't try to change the topic to your claims of how Israel would treat them so nicely if they stopped this or that - that's a separate debate with evidence to the contrary anyway (For example, in June Israel agreed for six months to ease the embargo and Hamas agreed to end the rocket attacks; Hamas with a few minor exceptions kept its end of the deal, Israel did not). Answer what the approved actions are by Palestenians in the situation above.
Nice try. They had peaceful lives before the first Intifada. They cheered the IDF soldiers on their way into Sinayi at 1967 to fight the Egyptians, of which they thought no good.
Until Arafat and his murderous gang came to town and began installing national aspirations at the expense of Israel.
The thing is Israel would be willing to invest considerable efforts to detach itself from this population if only given the chance to do so securely. There would no need for protest then.
Your condescending attitude marked the end of the conflict at the point Israel gives these territories back, without ever considering the remote possibility that the Palestinians might want the entire land of Palestine back. For every time they said this conflict will be resolved with Israel at its 48' borders, I can bring 10 times they said it wouldn't end there. Furthermore, I'd love to see one speech, given in the Arabic language, where a Hamas official states that they will be content with Israel at '67 borders.
Anyway, you can't possibly be suggesting that suicide bombers and rockets fired blindly into civilian areas are the answers, right?
