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Originally posted by SLM3
Interesting how you start the process with the blowing up of a bus or a pizza stand. I'd rather start the process a couple steps before that, looking at what led to that bus or that pizza stand being blown up in the first place.
Stop trying to cure the symptoms.
SLM3
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I don't believe anyone is suggesting anything of the sort. Regardless of the "righteousness," or lack thereof, of the religious or political motives behind terrorist tactics, the tactics cannot be rewarded.
If the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is representative, those who perpetrate terrorism have not been amenable to reasonable compromise. Most "every day" Israelis and Palestinians would have signed off on more than one of the previous peace proposals. Until the extremists on both sides of the fence are dealt with, you cannot effectively deal with the underlying issues imo (mostly because the terrorsits don't
really want the issues resolved, because it is these very issues which give them their power).