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In reply to the discussion: Israel Is A Terrorist State: Turkey PM [View all]AldoLeopold
(617 posts)Not exactly my finest moment of internet forum posting. I regret losing my temper with ellison or whatever his name is. I hope her family is well. I've learned enough about the people of Israel that they are by and large kind, loving and extremely thoughtful people themselves - they certainly don't deserve all of this horror.
Its just land, after all. Not very good land at that since the Romans deforested it building their biremes and triremes. Used to be oaks there as far as the eye can see. A lot of the problem here is poverty, which I, and others more learned than I on this subject, have asserted is the root cause of much of the hate from the Palestinian side and in general throughout the middle-east. I think perhaps a carefully monitored system of large-scale international financial aid and rebuilding such as in Lebanon might be more fruitful here than taking up arms. I could be wrong though. Too much of it might be used to buy arms...though hopefully it would eventually result in prosperity for the Palestinian people.