Comments on: About those “settlements” http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/28/7999 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:21:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/28/7999/comment-page-1#comment-36808 Alex Bensky Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:30:55 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7999#comment-36808 The solution is obvious, Dad. If Israeli concessions primarily produce demands by the Arabs for more concessions, then the solution is to force the Israelis into more concessions. The solution is obvious, Dad. If Israeli concessions primarily produce demands by the Arabs for more concessions, then the solution is to force the Israelis into more concessions.

]]> By: David C. http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/28/7999/comment-page-1#comment-36807 David C. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:38:02 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7999#comment-36807 There's a simple explanation. Politicians like success. Doesn't matter if the success leads to a good or a bad end, only that they got what they asked for. They know that with enough pressure, Israel will cave in every time. The Arabs won't. So they pressure Israel and ignore the Arabs. This way, they can go to bed secure in the knowledge that they had an impact on the world. The fact that thousands of peace-loving people end up dead as a result of that impact, however, doesn't seem to matter at all. There’s a simple explanation. Politicians like success. Doesn’t matter if the success leads to a good or a bad end, only that they got what they asked for.

They know that with enough pressure, Israel will cave in every time. The Arabs won’t. So they pressure Israel and ignore the Arabs. This way, they can go to bed secure in the knowledge that they had an impact on the world. The fact that thousands of peace-loving people end up dead as a result of that impact, however, doesn’t seem to matter at all.

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