From: Peter Snowdon (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 13:36:50 PST
malgosia askanas wrote:
> Shelly Silver wrote:
>
>> 800 palestinians dead
>> 14 israelis dead
>>
>
> We truly live in a new world - where wars are required to be waged in such a way as to make sure one's own casualties are comparable to those of the enemy. Well, I propose that if Hamas doesn't like these figures, they should agree to a real cease-fire, recognize Israel's right to exist, and stop terrorrizing the Israeli population. This would be a very hope-inspiring first step towards an acual peace-process.
>
Quite. While we're at it, the UN could formally abolish the right of
occupied peoples to resist their aggressors by force, thus bringing
international law into line (at last!) with the state of play on the
ground; the Navajo could surrender their remaining lands to Barack Obama
the day he takes office, and at last be rid of all the stresses and
strains which come with even a limited degree of autonomy; and Jews
everywhere could apologise to the countless nations who have undertaken
the hard work of persecuting and massacring them down the ages for
having died in such large numbers, and with so little fuss, thus making
their oppressors look like much worse people than they actually were,
and generally depressing millions of casual onlookers.
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