I suppose that's pretty much how the U.S. actually *did* react after 9/11 and ... well, look how well that's worked out for us, 4000 dead soldiers later. :/ But I don't know how you can be expected to negotiate with an enemy who doesn't even recognize your right to be.
But I don't know how you can be expected to negotiate with an enemy who doesn't even recognize your right to be.
I don't know. The options are always, when it comes down to it, fight, wait, or talk. At this point it seems like waiting is futile because Sderot will continue getting shot at, fighting costs us and them lives and seems to strengthen their resolve (not to mention push Israeli public opinion to the right), and there's no one to talk to, not about the real issues. It's a lose-lose-lose situation, unless Hamas decide to switch tactics or compromise or are removed from power, somehow. Otherwise... I don't know. (I made a flowchart of doom once, though. It's kind of... ominous...)
The really depressing thought is that it might all simply be a question of enough blood spilled. That when both sides suffer losses that are too hard to bear, they'll finally be willing to compromise. I think most Israelis have reached that point, but it doesn't work unless both sides agree to compromise.
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I suppose that's pretty much how the U.S. actually *did* react after 9/11 and ... well, look how well that's worked out for us, 4000 dead soldiers later. :/ But I don't know how you can be expected to negotiate with an enemy who doesn't even recognize your right to be.
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I don't know. The options are always, when it comes down to it, fight, wait, or talk. At this point it seems like waiting is futile because Sderot will continue getting shot at, fighting costs us and them lives and seems to strengthen their resolve (not to mention push Israeli public opinion to the right), and there's no one to talk to, not about the real issues. It's a lose-lose-lose situation, unless Hamas decide to switch tactics or compromise or are removed from power, somehow. Otherwise... I don't know. (I made a flowchart of doom once, though. It's kind of... ominous...)
The really depressing thought is that it might all simply be a question of enough blood spilled. That when both sides suffer losses that are too hard to bear, they'll finally be willing to compromise. I think most Israelis have reached that point, but it doesn't work unless both sides agree to compromise.
So. Lots of "I don't knows". I don't know,
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