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Originally Posted by Painted
The only problem with the above is that those "radical groups" will never live peacefully with the state of Israel, as long as it exists. Name one year of peace between any given terrorist group and Israel. These terrorists don't want apologies, they want Israeli deaths, and public support.
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It's not about apologies at all, it's about reasonable concessions. Do you remember the cold war? Do you remember all of the obvious pgopoganda handed down to us? "Communists hate us and our way of life!" "Communists are Godless!!" "Communists will stop at nothing!!" The reason that they used to say that is to dehumanize the enemy so that it is more palatable to kill them. The simple fact is that there are no "evil enemies of freedom who will stop at nothing". There is a logical reason that these people go out and do what they do. Palestinians don't strap bombs to themselves because they are crazy or evil...they do it as a final desperate act to fight for freedom. These terrorists do ahve demands, and it's not as simple as "destroy Israel" or "death to the infadels". They want a home and a government. They want peace. If given the opportunity, I suspect that they would be willing to stop fighting.
No one wants to go to war (save for my very own president).