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At 1:22 AM +0800 10/14/01, LogicBaby wrote:
>Dennis, You are so wrong its not even funny, what kind of sympathy did the
>US have before towards the Palestinians "where they fair in the united
>nations voting or the security council where all the world have condemned
>Israel but the US?

You claim to know something about the "average American" then you 
should know that the "average American" does feel some sympathy and 
does not particularly approve of Israel's behavior.   Just as at the 
same time the average American does not want to see Israel destroyed. 
So maybe you been making and listening to rude comments about us long 
enough that you have begun to believe we are as wicked and stupid as 
your sarcasm implies.

Saying that I personally am sympathetic does not mean that I think 
everything that all Palestinians do is reasonable though.  Or that 
what the Israelis do is a balanced reaction.  There are reasons for 
their paranoia though.  Like the saying goes "just because I am 
paranoid does not mean that everyone isn't out to get me".  There is 
the reality that they are a small country in the middle of a region 
where every one of their neighbors dislikes their culture and many 
are even philosophically opposed to their existence.  Just because 
the Palestinians are currently on the loosing side of the battle does 
not make them somehow wonderful in all respects or erase the fact 
that a non negligible faction does not want peace with Israel to be 
even remotely possible because they don't want Israel to be possible. 
The average American is at a loss as to how to help Israel to 
continue to exist and at the same time stop them from brutalizing the 
Palestinians.  But I guess us average Americans are just dumb because 
everyone else seems to think that should be easy and we would be able 
to pull it off if we weren't such a bunch of oafs.

My personal feelings are that I would like see the extremists on both 
sides collectively bitch slapped with their holy books by 400 kilo 
gorillas.
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