2/25 Extra: Israelis, Palestinians, Death

russotto · 03-05-2002, 03:51 PM

King just didn't get it. "An eye for an eye" was a way of STOPPING vendetta. Someone takes out your eye, you take out his as retribution, AND IT STOPS THERE. You still both have an eye left.

Israel and the Palestinians are in another situation. Both sides keep using the same failed tactics and seem surprised when they keep failing. Some Palestinians shoot or blow up a few Israelis, the Israelis take revenge against some other random group of Palestinians, and imposes various sanctions on all Palestinians. All that does it get both sides pissed off. That's not justice, even of Hammurabi's sort; it's insanity. The Palestinians are never going to get rid of Israel with suicide bombings, and the Israeli's are never going to stop them or even slow them down by random acts of retribution.

03-05-2002, 03:51 PM	#1
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	King just didn't get it. "An eye for an eye" was a way of STOPPING vendetta. Someone takes out your eye, you take out his as retribution, AND IT STOPS THERE. You still both have an eye left. Israel and the Palestinians are in another situation. Both sides keep using the same failed tactics and seem surprised when they keep failing. Some Palestinians shoot or blow up a few Israelis, the Israelis take revenge against some other random group of Palestinians, and imposes various sanctions on all Palestinians. All that does it get both sides pissed off. That's not justice, even of Hammurabi's sort; it's insanity. The Palestinians are never going to get rid of Israel with suicide bombings, and the Israeli's are never going to stop them or even slow them down by random acts of retribution.

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