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StellaSlight · 03-30-2004, 04:39 AM

I didn't know about the Red Cross not wanting a Jewish equivalent. Especially when one considers them Swiss in the first place, which means quite impartial.
But like I said, they're not the only one who opposed to the wall, so it's hard to argue that all humanitarian organization are biased.

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Like Le Duc Tho, another monster, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ooooh, this is getting interesting. Please, tell me, what has done Le Duc Tho, so horrible, that you call him a 'monster'? Beside the fact that he's a communist and that he's the one who negociated the peace between North Vietnam and the US with Kissinger in 1973? I sure don't like Le Duc Tho, but calling him a 'monster' would be going to far. Really, I know the subject quite well so I'd love to hear your input in the matter.
BTW, the Nobel Price has been named after the man who invented the dynamite, so here is another 'monster'.

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Arafat cooperated with the peace process for a while.

It's very easy to dismiss those years of improvement in relationships, in cease-of-fires, of steps forward to get the peace by saying "he cooperated for awhile". That was years, actually, and that was after 40 years of bloody war against the same man he's sharing the picture -Rabin. That's a big action, and that's something that we can't say for both part since Rabin has died.

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It was - entirely, one hundred percent, beyond all doubt whatsoever - Arafat's fault.

That's too easy, and that's what I blame most of Israel-supporters : dismissing all eventual fault from the Israeli side and blaming everything on Palestine and Arafat.
Arafat has been a SOB since Netanyahu came to power, and I'm not the one who shall contradict that fact. But the Israeli goverment has also played a dangerous card, by "toughing up" its policy way before the new wave of tensions and the bombings began. First with speeches (especially Netanyahu and his party way before his election), and then with actions in the Gaza Strip. The whip and the carrot. Israel should not wonder after that, that Palestine has gone crazy, with all the population paranoid and uncertain about the peace process.
I told you that settlements in GS were a sensitive subject and that they were one of the major cause of the new wave of tensions. And both parties are to be blamed, not only Arafat.

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It is possible Netanyahu would not have done a good job of negotiating peace, or that Sharon would not do a good job of it. That is mere supposition. Neither has ever had the opportunity.

Well, I'm sure the day Sharon came up with that Barrier line, he knew he'd kiss peace goodbye. So, saying that he didn't have the opportunity would be somehow untrue. I'd say that he did nothing to get an opportunity to negociate peace.