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Heather
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Is there no chance for peace?
March 27, 2002 - 07:50 AM
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I was just surfing the internet, being bored, looking at different message boards when I came across one having to deal with a suicide bombing in Israel that killed 15 people. I was reading the responses that people had and I felt sick. You could break the messages down into two groups. The first group is the all Arabs are scum and less them human. Kill them all. The second group was the Jews are evil and Israel is a Nazi state. Kill them all. I didn’t know how to respond to this. Their were over one thousand messages. Does anyone else find this insane.
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Robert Margolis
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Wanting the whole pie
March 27, 2002 - 10:01 AM
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This is what happens when both sides want the whole pie and won't budge. As long as this view prevails, there is not much one can do. I know that one is supposed to propose great visionary ways to solve this, but I am out of ideas.
I do know there are people and programs trying to bring folks together. One interesting one is the Arava Institute (http://www.arava.org). They bring Israelis and Arabs together to work on the regions' common environmental problems. Perhaps it is these small steps that offer the best chance.
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you hear it every . . .
March 28, 2002 - 04:01 AM
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The 'everyone wants the whole pie' theory is true.
But as this conflict drags on, the pie is going to be ruined before either side can have but a taste!
Of course, i'll leave room for manipulation of the analogy even further.
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Re: Is there no chance for peace?
March 29, 2002 - 01:22 AM
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I understand that hate can run deep and it is a powerful drive, but i don't understand what it will solve. Thier are people that I hate and I wish they would just die. It gets so bad that I can't even stand in the same room with these individuals. But I don't like that I have these feelings and I know that nothing will be resolved by my having these feelings. So I try to change and get past these feelings.
Besides a lot of the people posting these hateful responses are not really involed. They are outsiders in the situation. It would be like me sayong a bunch of hateful things about people that I have never met and don't relly know much about. Out of the post that I read the ones that made the most sense and were the most understandable were from people involved, but the posts that were just all hate were from random individuals who just like to hate for the sake of hating. They had no reasons stated behind that hate.
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Re: Is there no chance for peace?
March 29, 2002 - 07:20 AM
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you cant expect the people to just go out of the blue, forget all the hatered, forget how their ancestors were killed by the otherside.
i think this is a very unrealistic demand we are making here.
coz the war today is more of you-killed-our-people-so-we-kill-yours.
i think i used this line before.
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