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Originally Posted by Aether
Maybe it would be successful. Maybe the terrorist structures would be able to gather more followers and overthrow Arafat's administration. Maybe it would all end in civil war. We just don't know.
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Maybe.
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Fine. What's your solution?
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I think some international body needs to come together and agree upon what exactly will not be tolerated. If there are countries that don't want to play along then decisive action needs to be taken against their leadership. For example: this international body just might say, "Israel - no more wall, no more retaliatory strikes, no more assassinations and here's what land you're going to give back. Palestine - you are now a state, start acting like one. Get some leadership, let your people pick it. No more suicide bombers. The Jews are here to stay. If either of you can't fix it, we'll come in and take over your police force and your defense. US - no more coups, no more invasions. If we find out you've meddle in any foreign governments there will be a world-wide embargo on your products. Russia - give the Chechens independence or we'll put a world-wide embargo on your products. Chechens - if you don't stop the terrorism we'll come in and take over your police force and your defense."
I don't mean to sound simplistic but the rules about terrorism and oppression need to be clear-cut and there needs to be a unified, world-wide voice that has the will and the ability to enforce its decisions.
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I don't recall US being attacked by some minor organization...
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It's coming.
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If entire world condemns them, no one would be against your country using reasonable force to eliminate the threat.
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What is reasonable to us if far from reasonable to them. Consider CAIR's (Council on American-Islamic Relations) response to Yassin's assassination: they of couse condemn Israel's actions and go on to say that the international community must "take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence."
Yet they never say that the international community should take concrete steps to help protect the Israeli people against suicide bombers. They never point out that Hamas's stated goal is the death of every Jew in Israel. What could get more "wanton" than that?