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IntiRaymi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-07-06 07:40 PM
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4. This makes perfect sense:
"The only real protection for a small country like Israel is to have good relations with its neighbors, and that is precisely what the occupation systematically undermines. The Geneva Accord provides a good foundation for the lasting peace both sides say they want."

The problem, of course, is that those good relations would entail a course of action that would eliminate the colonization plan. So good relations will not happen, and israelis will have to content themselves with living under eternal fear, and a de facto police state.

But that is what some want. A fearful people are more easily led astray, to wit: If anyone examines the multitude of slippery slope arguments used in these forums for justifying Israel's actions...
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