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Originally Posted by abaya
Okay, let me clarify. I meant that if you basically switch all the references around in your post, you will clearly reflect the other side's opinion... except that the ethnic group is different. Which, in my opinion, doesn't put you on much of a moral high horse in terms of making objective judgements on the best path to take here.
From the point of view of a Palestinian, using your post:
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I'm not looking for the moral high ground, as shocking as that may sound. I'm looking for victory. Maybe thats a suprise to you, perhaps hard to understand. But we aren't going to beat the terrorists by taking it easy. There is one thing islamists respect and that is strength. negotiations and unilateral concessions might be the "moral" thing to do, but in the eyes of the terrorists you are weak and acts like that only serve to embolden them, make it look to them that you are on the run, that you don't want to fight any more. The situation would be different if we were fighting a different enemy. But we are fighting a people who do not want peaceful co-existance. They are fighting for total victory and will stop and nothing short - that alone requires us to do the same. they will never give up, so we have to kill them. If, if they were willing to negotiate a truce and live peacefully side by side with israel and the rest of the western world we would not be fighting.