Maggy

When I was very much younger I wholeheartedly supported Israel and I sneered at Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Fonda for their support of the Palestinian's cause.However I did not know HOW the Israeli state came about.
As time has gone on and I've learned how that happened and I've seen the way in which the Israeli government have time and time again taken more and more extremist actions against the Palestinians I've begun to wonder just who is the terrorist in this situation.The Israelis come down hard on the Palestinians and then Hammas comes back much stronger and then the whole tit for tat just escalates further and further down a bloody path of violence.

Maybe if the Israelis do build themselves into a fortess there may be a breathing space.I don't hold out much hope of it though.

There is much wrong on both sides and it is not going to bring any peace to the area until both sides acknowledge that both sides have done much to be ashamed of.Until they can face up to the fact that playing the blame game will not stop the violence.There can be no unilateral disarmament and both sides have to come to the table in good faith to sort out any kind of peace.

I don't think it will happen in my lifetime UNLESS we get a US president who will stand up to the lobbyists and a UN that WILL insist on troops being deployed to stop any conflicts.

Left to themselves both sides will never see peace at this rate.

And all the while the situation festers the war on terrorism seems doomed to failure.