10-09-2003, 03:55 PM
Quote:<i>Originally posted by Brother Todd </i><b>This is not true. If you really know what has been going on there, you would have known that the Israelis never stopped their curfews, roadblocks, raids of the villages and all the other things they were doing before this so called roadmap to peace. I know this doesnt give the Palestinians the right to do the things they do either. Both sides are guilty, but the real truth is that the Palestitians were not the first to strike. I know this for a fact from watching video from BBC, and other reliable sources. Seek the truth and ye shall find. This stuff wasnt shown here in the US TV.</b>Curfews and roadblocks should have stayed in place, this is nowhere near such a catalyst for a suicide bombing. Settlement building and fence building was continuing and we were negotiating how to handle this including sanctions and withholding funds to Israel. The Palestinians may not trust the US, but they are making the ability to hold Israel responsible Impossible! You think I'm pushing just the Israeli side, but as I said in my first post of this thread, I'm merely playing the devil's advocate. Michelle has heard one side, I'm simply showing the other.
As you stated in the next post of yours, that Michelle should read and educate herself, I would suggest the same for you. The internet is an amazing thing, but you must be very careful of the websites you visit. Not all are true to either side of this conflict.
Yes by all means read some History of that region. Go back further than 1967 though.
Now let's get to the focus of your crossing my point - Israel held to their ceasefire! Fence building and settlement building is not firing! I'm going to have to ask again, do not make my words into something they are not.
Give me a break - do not demean me like a child, as the BBC, Al jazeera, and numerous french papers are all in my daily readings.
Anything before 1967 doesn't matter for the case in point. That is unless you want to argue the birthright to the land At that point we might as well just let the two sides kill each other off since neither will ever be proven right.
For the next person that wishes to debate me, the least you can do is not assume I mean something I did not say - ask to clarify and I will, but this game of putting words in my mouth is numbing.