What is Happening in Israel? Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Explained |
Thomas Sowell
Israel the militant group Hamas
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launching a surprise attack on the
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country killing dozens and taking an
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unknown number of hostages Israel
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responding with force and calling the
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situation a state of
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War
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Med
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if Israel just allowed the Palestinians
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to have a state of their own there would
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be peace in the Middle East right that's
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what you hear from un ambassadors
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European diplomats and most college
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professors but what if I told you that
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Israel has already offered the
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Palestinians a state of their own and
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not just once but on five separate
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occasions don't believe me let's review
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the
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record after the breakup of the Ottoman
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Empire following World War I Britain
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took control of most of the Middle East
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including the area that constitutes
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modern Israel 17 years later in
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1936 the Arabs rebelled against the
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British and against the Jewish neighbors
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the British formed a task force the peel
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commission to study the cause of the
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Rebellion
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the commission concluded that the reason
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for the violence was that two peoples
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Jews and Arabs wanted to govern the same
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land the answer the appeal commission
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concluded would be to create two
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independent states one for the Jews and
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one for the Arabs a two-state
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solution the suggested split was heavily
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in favor of the Arabs the British
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offered them 80% of the disputed
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territory the Jews the remaining % yet
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despite the tiny size of their proposed
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state the Jews voted to accept this
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offer but the Arabs rejected it and
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resumed their violent Rebellion
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rejection number one 10 years later in
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1947 the British asked the United
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Nations to find a new solution to the
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continuing tensions like the peal
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commission the UN decided that the best
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way to resolve the conflict was to
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divide the land in November
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1947 the the UN voted to create two
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states again the Jews accepted the offer
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and again the Arabs rejected it only
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this time they did so by launching an
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allout War rejection number two Jordan
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Egypt Iraq Lebanon and Syria joined the
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conflict but they failed Israel won the
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war and got on with the business of
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building a new
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nation most of the land set aside by the
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UN for an Arab State the West Bank and
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East Jerusalem became occup
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territory occupied not by Israel but by
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Jordan 20 years later in 1967 the Arabs
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LED This Time by Egypt and joined by
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Syria and Jordan once again sought to
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destroy the Jewish State the 1967
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conflict known as The Six Day War ended
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in a stunning victory for Israel
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Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as
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the area known as the Gaza Strip fell
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into Israel's hands the government split
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over what to do with this new
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territory half wanted to return the West
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Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt in
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exchange for peace the other half wanted
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to give it to the Region's Arabs who had
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begun referring to themselves as the
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Palestinians in the hope that they would
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ultimately build their own State there
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neither initiative got very far a few
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months later the Arab League met in
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Sudan and issued its Infamous three NOS
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no peace with Israel no recognition of
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Israel
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no negotiations with Israel again a
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two-state solution was dismissed by the
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Arabs making this rejection number
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three in 2000 Israeli Prime Minister
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Ehud Barack met at Camp David with
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Palestinian Liberation Organization
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chairman Naser Arafat to conclude a new
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two-state plan Barack offered Arafat a
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Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94%
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of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as
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its capital but the Palestinian leader
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rejected the offer in the words of US
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President Bill Clinton Arafat was here
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14 days and said no to
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everything instead the Palestinians
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launched a bloody wave of suicide
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bombings that killed over 1,000 Israelis
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and maed thousands more on buses in
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wedding halls and in pizza parlors
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rejection number
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four in 2008 Israel tried yet again
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prime minister
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went even further than Ehud Barack had
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expanding the peace offer to include
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additional land to sweeten the deal like
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his predecessor the new Palestinian
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leader Mahmud Abbas turned the deal down
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rejection number five in between these
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last two Israeli offers Israel
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unilaterally left Gaza giving the
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Palestinians complete control there
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instead of developing this territory for
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the good of its citizens the
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Palestinians turned Gaza into a
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terrorist base
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from which they have fired thousands of
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rockets into
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Israel each time Israel has agreed to a
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Palestinian State the Palestinians have
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rejected the offer often
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violently no phrase represents more of a
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Triumph of Hope over experience than the
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phrase Middle East peace process a close
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second might be the once fashionable
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notion that Israel should trade land for
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peace
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since everybody seems to be criticizing
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Israel for its military response to the
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Rockets being fired into their country
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from the Gaza Strip let me add my
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criticisms as well the Israelis traded
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land for peace but they have never
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gotten the peace so they should take
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back the land maybe a couple of
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generations of Palestinians in Gaza
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living in peace under Israeli occupation
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and a couple of generations of the
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occupation troops squelching the
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terrorists militants for those of you
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who are squeamish would set up
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conditions where the Palestinians would
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be free to vote on whether they would
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like to remain occupied or to have their
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own State minus terrorists and their
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Rockets casualty totals alone should be
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enough to show that the Palestinian
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people are the biggest losers from the
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current situation where the terrorists
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among them firing Rockets into Israel
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can bring devastating retaliatory
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strikes why don't the Palestinians vote
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for some Representatives who would make
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a lasting peace with Israel because any
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such candidates would be killed by the
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terrorists long before election day so
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nobody volunteers for that dangerous
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role we don't know what the Palestinians
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really want and won't know as long as
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they are ruled by Hamas Hezbollah and
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the
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like whatever the benefits of peace for
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the Palestinian population what are the
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terrorists going to do in peace time
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become Librarians and Furniture
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salesmen so-called World opinion has
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been a largely negative factor in this
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situation nothing is easier than for
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people living in peace and safety in
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Paris or Rome to call for a ceasefire
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after the Israelis retaliate against
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people who are firing Rockets into their
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country the time to ceasefire was before
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the Rockets were fired what to calls for
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ceasefire and negotiations do they lower
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the price of launching attacks this is
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true not only in the Middle East but in
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other parts of the world as well during
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the Vietnam War when American clergymen
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were crying out stop the bombing they
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paid little attention to the fact that
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bombing pauses made it easier for North
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Vietnam to move more ammunition into
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South Vietnam to kill both South
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Vietnamese and
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Americans after Argentina invaded the
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fauland islands if British prime
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minister Margaret Batcher had heeded
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calls for a ceasefire that would have
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simply lowered the price to be paid by
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the Argentine government for their
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Invasion go back a 100 years before
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there was a United Nations and before
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World opinion was taken into account an
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Argentine invasion of the fauland
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islands at that time would have risked
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not only a British Counterattack to
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retake the islands but also British
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attacks on Argentina
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itself anywhere in the world attacks
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such as those on Israel today would not
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only have risked retaliation but
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Invasion and annihilation of the
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government that launched those
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attacks today so-called World opinion
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not only limits the price to be paid for
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aggression or terrorism it has even led
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to the self-indulgence of third parties
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talking pretty talk about limiting the
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response of those who are attacked to
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what is
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proportionate by this reasoning we
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should not have declared war on Japan
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for bombing Pearl Harbor we should have
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gone over to Japan bombed one of their
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harbors and let it go at that does
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anyone imagine that this would have led
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to Japan's becoming as peaceful today as
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it has become after Hiroshima and
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Nagasaki or is the real agenda to engage
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in moral preening from a safe distance
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and at somebody else's
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expense those who think negotiations are
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a magic answer seem not to understand
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that when a wants to annihilate B this
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is not an issue that can be resolved
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amicably around a conference
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table
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