Ruvy

Muslims generally and Palestinians certainly have more than their fair share of murderous actions we all can point to but that doesn’t mean the Israelis have completely clean hands either. According to Morris (Benny Morris an Israeli historian born in 1948) the Israelis were responsible for 24 massacres during the ’48 war. Of course the Palestinians aren’t pure either their count is 2 or 3 according to Morris. As for more recent events, Baruch Goldstein’s murder of 29 and the wounding of 150 in 1994(source of both Wikipedia).

Now I know that Israelis can point to lots and lots of examples of equally vicious behavior by Muslims and Palestinians. Most folks in this country with some historical perspective can point to lots and lots of vicious behavior by Native Americans but few of us now would suggest ethnic cleansing on any scale much less that done by our ancestors. Equally your suggestion to ethnically cleanse the West Bank is going to haunt your descendants and will be repudiated. Also the world wouldn’t stand by while you did it.

I don’t know what the solution is but yours is pretty vicious IMHO.

The New Yorker Magazine has a pretty good article about Gaza by Lawrence Wright in it’s Nov. 9th issue, I highly recommend it if you wish to see another point of view.

As for Joe he is too tainted for Democrats and too liberal for Republicans. Poor Joe stuck between a rock and a hard place, but who knows algae sometimes survives in similar situations.