I think that's wrong. Politicians in this country routinely ignore people - and there are a very great number of them - who want the return of the death penalty and/or repatriation of certain types of people 'back to where they came from'. This is because they regognise that these are simply not realistic political goals. In the same way, some of the politicians in Arab countries realise that Israel is not going to be snuffed out. However, at this moment in time, such opinions could not be openly expressed because the political backlash would be fearful.Originally Posted by Baruch
My view is that if Israel were less enthusiastic about such things as firing tank shells at houses in refugee towns, there would be less people willing to kill themselves in order to destroy a bus full of Jewish schoolchildren. Whether Israelis like it or not, the truth is that it is the Palestinians who have been disenfranchised by the establishment of the nation of Israel, and this is a wound that still smarts very much. Pouring balm on that wound is likely to heal it somewhat quicker than continually probing it so that it bleeds afresh.
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