What's New In The Palistinian-Israeli Situation

[Eli]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Who else is in the final 4? Panathinaikos, Macambi, TSSKA Moscow and...? Bologna?

Google says "TAU Ceramica".

It doesnt really matter. It's was clear from day 1 that Maccabi and CSKA will be the ones playing in the final.

[Ned]

One wonders whether there can ever be true peace so long as the likes of Iran and Syria continue to fund and support terrorist groups.The Palestinians do not seem to understand that such countries have no true interest in peace with Israel, and will do everything in their power to keep the Palestinian issue from being solved.

[Edan]

Originally posted by Edan
although I think the the major terrorist groups aren't eager to erupt major violence until they've sufficently rebuilt and rearmed, preffering low level violence at the moment.

Or maybe I'm wrong:

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy carrying five pipe bombs was detained by IDF forces at the Hawara roadblock south of the West Bank town of Nablus.

The boy, identified as Hassan Hashash, was obviously sent by someone and terrified, a soldier involved in the incident told Ynet.

link

[Ned]

So long as the radicals can get funding from outside Palestine, they will continue their assault on peace. I don't see any deal the PA makes with them holding for very long.

[Admiral]

In the end, it doesn't really matter what the PA agrees to with Hamas, etc or what they agree to with the PA. In order for their to be any chance for peace, the palestinian people have to consciously reject the radical networks. And the best way for this to happen is for Abbas to be constructive. While maintaining security is important, he must concentrate on building peaceful structures, be they governmental, infrastructural, or what have you. The people must see the PA as an effective organization, and they must see that it as a constructive agency in constrast to the destructive terror networks. When that happens, it won't matter what outside groups fund the terrorists. They'll be marginalized, and will function like organized crime does in the US.

[Ned]

Admiral, wishful thinking. I think terrorism has to be attacked at the root, not at the leaf.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by DaShi
No, I meant the Southern hemisphere.

If you pay attention to the middlish strip and ignore Antartic and Artic circles you can get a general feel for whats going on in the world.