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Seymour
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Date Joined Jan 2002
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Posted 4/6/2002 8:26 AM (GMT -6)

Bush has (finally) stepped into the Israel/Palestinian conflict. He has told Israel’s Prime Minister to pull out and end the military scare tactics against Palestinians.

Here is what I find intriguing about the matter, however: Sharon’s military tactics here of imposing a form of “state terrorism” to combat the civilian terrorism of the Palestinians has been based off of and compared to the U.S.’s “state terrorism” used to fight the civilian terrorists of Sept. 11.

Here’s a quote from today’s paper:

quote:
A week ago, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon launched Israel’s biggest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Mideast war, he envisioned an open-ended assault on Palestinian gunmen and suicide bombers—one that might run as long as America’s post-Sept. 11 campaign. Now his plan has been undermined, in part by his own miscalculations, in part by opposition from an ally whose anti-terrorist crusade he identifies with his own: President Bush.

Here are my questions:
· Who is going to tell the U.S. to stop OUR “open-ended” assault on the Afghanistan people?

· Why do we get to boss everyone else around when a) we are doing the same thing, and b) no one can stop us from doing the same thing?

· In 1984 Orwell describes a never-ending war against a vague and elusive enemy that is continually used to mob-ilize the nation in support of Big Brother. Is this not what is happening now? Is not Bush milking this thing for personal political gain?

· Have the Palestinians become the new “Jews” for Europe and North America? What I mean by this is that have the Palestinians and Arabs in general become the new national scapegoat that is used to justify unspeakable persecution? Has Israel become the new Nazis? (I’m just floating a balloon here).

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