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Brute force does not provide a solution: |
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Brute force does not provide a solution. Even a month of total
occupation in the Palestinian cities, ongoing curfew and suffocation
which brings the population to the edge of starvation, provide no
solution and bring us no security. On the contrary - the acts of the
soldiers who enforce the daily curfew prevent some terrorist attacks -
but only at the price of increasing the hatred from which ever-new
attacks spring. Today's lethal attack on a bus near the settlement of
Immanuel on the West Bank is a new and painful reminder. As long as the
people of Israel go on blindly following the Sharon government, this
government will go on leading the two peoples on the road to mutual
killing and destruction. It is not the escalation of oppression and the
deepening of the occupation, which will give Israel peace, security and
prosperity. That can be achieved only by an end to the occupation and
withdrawal of the army, both from the recently reoccupied Palestinian
cities and from the Occupied Territories as a whole. For that, Israel
must again talk to the Palestinians - to the representatives chosen by
the Palestinians themselves, not to supposed "leaders" which
the Sharon government dreams of appointing. |