If I may play Devil's Advocate for a second (and no, not the pinball machine

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Imagine for one minute you live in Southern San Diego, right down near the border....The Mexican government actually shows a bit of initive and says, "You know what, we're sick of our citizens leaving our country...we're going to build a bloody big wall to keep them all in!....What's that? The plans for the wall go right through where you live?...Yes, that's right. Yuo've got 3 months to get out before we come and bulldoze down your house!...Compensation? hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!"
Not a great situation to be in, I wouldn't have thought!
I think the Northen Ireland comparison was a good one....Surely now the violence has gotten to a point where it's nearly irrelevant?
What I mean is it's all retaliation for retaliation, for retaliation.....
...A Palistinian bombs a bus, Israel sends in the gun ships, Palistine bombs a soldier station, Israel aciidentally shoots a child in a street shoot-out, Palistine bomb something else....etc...etc...etc.....
...I would have thought it has gotten well beyond the point of the leaders playing tit-for-tat...eye for an eye and all that.
Like I said earlier, Arafat's successor has just won a free election, based on a campaign of denouncing violence...This MUST be a good thing......But, just yesterday, some idiot militant group bombed something else, and Israel have officially cut ties and refuse to even recognise the new leader!!
Look, I understand that it has to be annoying seeing your citizens blown to pieces...but it happens both ways, and when you have the majority of people electing a man*** preaching diplomacy over violence, you MUST take advantage and use it to nut something out, surely!!!...Not just say, "fcuk you pal!! We'll do what we want, live with it!"
*** Who got a higher % of the vote than our mate Georgey, who seems to think 52% gives him a clear mandate!
You're always welcome down here in Tassie, smurfy....you might want to bring you're sun screen tho, we're a bit closer than you guys to the hole in the ozone layer that Angry God has thrown at us
