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Sharon might be a hardcore crazy, but Arafat is far far beyond that. He's recently been talking to school children about killing Jews in wholesale numbers, he's never bought his own terrorist groups in line, he's squirrling away money in mass quatities that should be going to improve the lives of his own people.
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Wasn't Sharon also accused of squirrelling money away. Also, I would argue that by putting settlements in the 'combat zone' Israel is doing exactly what you accuse the Palestinians of. Both sides turn innocents into pawns.
If you look back on the situation, Israeli's actually starting the terrorist attacks and drove Palestinians off their land in the '50's. Palestinians have proven to be good copycats, not that it is a good trait to copy.
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Its easy to label the Isreali's as terrorists, but you have to realize that they had 6 million of thier own people turned into air pollution, they've been invaded countless times by nations who wanted nothing more then to drive them into the sea, they've had idiots running into thier buses and stores and killing woman and children in numbers to great to comprehend.
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Now, you wouldn't be excusing reprensible actions with 'consider the situation' arguments, would you!! Not sure if you were one of the posters that suggested that trying to understand a terrorists point of view makes you a terrorist, but that is a pretty common theme from the right. Furthermore, if you look up death tolls from the conflict, it is pretty clear that more innocent Palestinians die than Israeli's. Not that it makes either side right, but it seems to me that if you can excuse Israeli response, you should excuse Palestinian response under the same or worse conditions, no??
Further, you state as fact that Israel is interested in settling this. If I was a Palestinian, and saw Israeli settlements crop up daily, reducing the size of my 'country' all the while, I might just conclude that they were trying to 'push me into the ocean' (as I've seen you suggest from the other side).
My problem with your position is that you equate using a military to attack civilians as somehow different than using a suicide bomber to accomplish the same. I'm positive that if someone was supplying the Palestinians with gunships, tanks, etc. they would no doubt attack in a more conventional manner (not that there would be fewer civilian deaths, but somehow I think to you there would be a difference). However, as Palestine has no 'backer' they are not in a position to behave as a military. If Palestine did the Canadian thing and just caved to Israel, what sort of solution do you suppose Sharon would come up with??
Edit to add link on Sharon corruption:
http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/Wire/030110f.asp