mmarsh said:The extremist mentality is vocal and gets too much media coverage but it still remains small.
What reality are you living in. Perhaps you missed that poll I showed here it is again.
Muslim Views of Jews
...a large-scale attitudinal survey conducted by The Pew Research Center in 2006, puts the cards on the table when it comes to Muslim views of Jews.
The study revealed endemic anti-Jewish sentiment in the Muslim world.
Percentage of Muslims with Unfavorable Views of Jews:
- Jordan - 100 percent
- Lebanon - 99 percent
- Egypt - 98 percent
- Morocco - 88 percent
- Indonesia - 76 percent
- Pakistan - 74 percent
- Turkey - 60 percent
That is precisely what they want you to think. Thats one of the reasons for terror attacks, to make you believe that they are more powerful than they really are. Remember the IRA, they thought they were the top dog in Northern Ireland until the people there got sick of the endless bloodshed and commanded them to negiociate with the British. Fundimentalist are powerless if they dont have public support. Which is why they hate to negociate. Negociation robs fundimentalists of their power, which is why the resort to violence in order to keep the hatred alive.
That happened with the IRA becuase of the vote in Ireland that no longer gave the IRA moral precidence to continue the conflict.
Unless you can give the Muslims the same thing, the conflict will continue, you still don't get it. For them Mohamed say to hate the Jews, unless all the Imams says this is no tlonger valid and Israel has the right to excist only then will the conflict end.
Not if all issues are worked out. The ordinary Palestineans are just as fed up of the violence as the Isrealis. I remind you that during the Arafat-Barack negiociations there was over a year and a half of calm.
This is precisely the point I'm saying that they will have peace for a short period when they get what they want. And later they will look for any excuse at all no matter how small to restart the conflict again.
That Anology doesnt work. Czechoslovakia was never part of Germany, not even the Sudatenland was. Hitler made a land grab pure and simple. Here the situation is reversed, the Isrealis grabbed land that didnt belong to them in 1967 from the Palestineans. The Palestineans want it back in order to form a new country. Will it end the conflict completely and immediatly? No. Not for at least a decade or two. But it would be a hell of a step in the right direction. Just at the misery the Isrealis have gotten for trying to keep it. If the Isrealis and Palestineans want peace they will have to sit down at the bargining table. Everybody knows this, even the terrorists.
It has everything to do with it, in that people who have destructive aims will not be satified until they have evrything.
Not only that the Palestinians weren't the ones reponsible for trying to annihilate Israel several times during their history.
It was all the other Muslims countries around the area who have done so and they are NOT Palestinians, and they did not own any of that land.SO the analogy makes perfect sense.
I told you before, this is not just a Palestinian issue, the destruction of Israel is so prevalent that all the countries in the area jump in to fuel the conflict and support the terrorist.