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Re: Is the Palestinian Cause Dead? The Latest Terror Attacks
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:49:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> Ok, I guess I'm done with this debate. Sorry for intruding. If people
> aren't going to bother reading the whole debate it isn't worthwhile.
It seems to me that, after a tiny bit of clarification, the disagreement is
over where the boundry line should be drawn.
If Scott A is bugging you, just ignore his comments.
> (Who is about to consider asking .debate to be removed again, it's just
> a bunch of people talking past each other...)
This seems like an extreme overreaction -- I have read the whole thread and
followed your views rather closely. I personally agree with most of it as a
kind of common sense approach to the problem where everybody has to give in
at least little.
And I think Scott A is actually understanding you -- not talking past you,
he just wants to clarify or dispute one point in what is being discussed. I
am finding his statements reasonable and worthy of inquiry.
I am not sure where the boundry line should be drawn myself, but I'd suggest
that at this precise moment in time a state's boundries are defensible if
conventional weapons are the only consideration -- there is a whole host of
things a would-be enemy can achieve using other tactics and more modern
devices that make physical boundries more or less unimportant. Should a
modern Palestine ever exist, I don't think a physical boundry would be a
stop to hostilities should a desire for hostilities arise.
I guess one of the things that makes peace in that part of the world
unlikely is that there isn't really a mechanism for countries to police each
other ad infinitum.
-- Richard
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