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Palestinians' doomsday weapon, non-violence, fails test

By Bradley Burston

Tags: Hamas, Burston, Gaza

The Palestinians have kept their ultimate doomsday weapon under tight wraps for 40 years. Israel knew about it. Israeli senior commanders could only pray that the Palestinians would never take it out and put it to actual use. Every Israeli soldier who served in Gaza knew about it, and also knew the hollowness in the declarations of IDF brass that, "The army will know how to deal with it, should it happen."

In all of Israel's vast arsenal of defense hardware and technology, there is nothing that can effectively counter it. That is what makes it a weapon so powerful we dare not speak its name: non-violence.

This is one reason why, for decades, Israel did its best to head off, harass, and crack down on expressions of Palestinian non-violence.

At the back of the minds of Israeli statesmen, diplomats, police officials, and defense planners, was an awareness that the true power of the Palestinians had nothing to do with stone-throwing, Molotov cocktails, grenade attacks, knifings, suicide bombings, assault rifle drive-bys, or Qassam rocket barrages. They knew that the true power of the Palestinians to damage Israel also had nothing to do with incitement,
institutional anti-Semitism in schools, or declarations of revolution until victory and the ultimate replacement of the Jewish state by an independent Palestine.

The true power of the Palestinians, the bottom-line dread of the Israelis, was embodied in only four words: Get up and walk.

The theory - expounded by Palestinian moderates for year after year, supported by Israeli leftists - was that a determinedly peaceful demonstration in which thousands and thousands and still more thousands of Gazans headed for the Israeli border, would do more for the cause of Palestinian independence and freedom that all the gratuitous violence of the last 40 years of armed struggle combined.

On Monday, the theory faced a crucial test. The Palestinians failed it.

Not only because the turnout - which organizers had hoped would comprise some 40,000 Gazans - was meager, numbering, by some estimates, as low as the high hundreds.

It was a failure because the Palestinians who cannot abide non-violence marked the occasion by launching a barrage of Qassam rockets against Sderot. A boy was badly wounded on Monday when a Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip struck an underground shelter in the Negev town of Sderot.

The 10-year-old boy was hit by a rocket which severed part of his arm. A mother and her one-year-old were also wounded in the salvo.

Can Palestinians stage a truly non-violent demonstration without gunmen shooting rockets at Israel? Can Palestinians march peacefully without teen macho hotheads - themselves Palestinian - foiling the effort by throwing rocks, angle irons, and cinder blocks at the Israeli police and soldiers confronting them?

The example of Bili'in - where foreign leftists and Palestinian activists gather each Friday to demonstrate against the West Bank barrier, and, in the process, undermine their own cause by throwing stones at Israeli troops - bodes poorly.

At this point, neither Hamas nor the Israel Defense Forces knows how to deal with such an event. The proof of that is evident enough in the mirror-image protestations of both sides. Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said that "Our people will not allow the continuation of this situation regardless of the results, and we will work to break the siege by all possible means.

"We hold them [Israeli leaders] responsible for any harm to the participants in these peaceful demonstrations," Abu Zuhri said.

Israel's Foreign and Defense Ministries, meanwhile, issued a statement warning that if Palestinians put innocent civilians in the vanguard of a mass movement toward the border, "the sole responsibility lies directly on Hamas' shoulders" for whatever might ensue.

After all these years, has Israel learned anything from the threat of an eruption of non-violence? Anyone who served during the years of the occupation knows the answer well enough. The macho compulsions of the army brass and their civilian commanders were such that they made every effort to avoid crowd control and truly non-lethal riot control, dismissing it as police work and beneath them.

During the first intifada, Israel had nearly seven years to develop riot control methods in the territories. Instead, it put its own soldiers at risk, offering them nothing more than the possibility of opening fire on stone-throwers, which in turn invited escalation and further bloodshed. During the second intifada, Israeli military commanders seemed almost relieved that Palestinians resorted to firearms from the start. The generals had promised that "If they ever open fire, we'll know how to respond." Thousands of Palestinian deaths later, the response is clear.

If any more evidence were needed, in a first response to the threat of a mass march this week, the IDF ordered a heavy artillery battery to the border with the Strip.

What can Israel do if, for some reason, Palestinians neither open fire nor throw rocks? The question was raised most recently in January, after tens of thousands of Gazans, beleaguered by the tightening Israeli blockade over the Strip, broke through the border fence to Egyptian territory

"The next time there is a crisis in the Gaza Strip, Israel will have to face half a million Palestinians who will march toward Erez," senior Hamas official Ahmed Youssef said at the time. "This is not an imaginary scenario, and many Palestinians would be prepared to sacrifice their lives."

The IDF does possess various non-lethal means, but their use could still have serious human rights implications. There is, for example, a system which emits bursts of sound (dubbed "The Scream"), meant to cause nausea, dizziness and disorientation and dizziness.

Then there is the U.S.-developed weapon which is called, in a stroke of inadvertent brilliance and aptness, the Active Denial System (ADS).

Also known as the "pain ray," the ADS issues radiation which causes its human targets to feel as though their skin is on fire, even though its developers insist that it causes no actial burns.

The best bet, though, is that Israel will rely on the vastly more tested
Active Denial System of its own - the belief that Palestinians can be counted on to counter non-violence on their own, insisting instead on the more ostensibly manly approach of winning (more often losing) through force of arms.

Israel's ADS was much in evidence Monday morning, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert blandly told reporters that he was unaware of any "warnings" of a mass march. It was up to former army chief and current cabinet minister Shaul Mofaz to utter the mantra of Israeli ADS:

"Hamas today rules Gaza. If Hamas doesn't want them to cross the border fence in the direction of Israel, they will succeed in halting an incident of this kind."

And if Hamas allows them to continue? "If this does, in fact, happen, I trust that the defense establishment will know how to respond."

Note the tense. He's not lying, exactly. Will know. Someday.

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1.	Weapon of non-violence my ass	10:12	\|	David	25/02/08

2.	THE STONES...THE ROCKETS... !!! WHAT IS NEXT ?	10:15	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

3.	so you do understand	10:29	\|	justajew	25/02/08

4.	A little devil`s advocacy:	10:29	\|	S	25/02/08

5.	Special Bulletin From the Hamas Travel Advisory Committee	10:29	\|	Klaudia	25/02/08

6.	Nonsense	10:33	\|	Ron	25/02/08

7.	Bil`in	10:36	\|	JW	25/02/08

8.	ATILA, OH, ATILA	10:37	\|	indrajaya	25/02/08

9.	NON VIOLENCE.Not an option in either Hamas or Fatah charters	10:38	\|	PETER SM	25/02/08

10.	what you are describing is not non-violence	10:38	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

11.	ISRAEL IS FRIGHTENED TO DEATH, I CAN SMELL IT	10:39	\|	indrajaya	25/02/08

12.	Where?	10:40	\|	Gina	25/02/08

13.	Haaretz allows vicious anti- Semites to post on its site	10:44	\|	Shalom Freedman	25/02/08

14.	ATILLA, YOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT YOUR PKK, NOT OUR PROBLEMS	10:44	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

15.	So stone-throwing is a death sentence, Bradley?	10:47	\|	Johnboy	25/02/08

16.	Israel soldiers and flowers	10:56	\|	pal	25/02/08

17.	#17, S	11:01	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

18.	#26 Cipora just falling for the trap.....	11:03	\|	Johnboy	25/02/08

19.	A question and a suggestion for Cipora # 27	11:10	\|	Clickfool	25/02/08

20.	Burston is wrong	11:14	\|	Chris Linthwaite	25/02/08

21.	The Test for Both Sides	11:15	\|	Tzfonit	25/02/08

22.	INDRAJAYA"STARVING THEM TO DEATH" PLEASE SEND PHOTOS	11:16	\|	PETER SM	25/02/08

23.	#45, jb, what they are planning is despicable	11:17	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

24.	Have we reached the point	11:23	\|	Tzfonit	25/02/08

25.	@37, primitive pal, israel is one of the biggest if not the	11:28	\|	vladimir	25/02/08

26.	Non violent ?	11:33	\|	Serge	25/02/08

27.	#50, FOOL, ask your own army	11:34	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

28.	Israel should expect surprises	11:39	\|	Clickfool	25/02/08

29.	Cipora: On Violence by Definition and Response	11:43	\|	Tzfonit	25/02/08

30.	Israel`s Days of Occupying Palestine are Nearly Over	11:44	\|	Mr. Know-it-all	25/02/08

31.	Johnboy : Why does israel have to shoot ?	12:04	\|	JJ burke	25/02/08

32.	#73 mrknow f all is reading the wrong writing on the wall	12:08	\|	v hardman	25/02/08

33.	#72, Tzfonit	12:11	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

34.	paul hardman and transfer	12:13	\|	phil	25/02/08

35.	Be careful about the lies you spew Bradley!	12:21	\|	Josh	25/02/08

36.	The failure of the Oslo agreement.	12:26	\|	Jean Van Daem	25/02/08

37.	and I thought we were Monsters!	12:38	\|	FOX	25/02/08

38.	#75 V Hardman- Keep dreaming for when you wake up it will be over	12:51	\|	Mr. Know-it-all	25/02/08

39.	March inherently Violent	13:00	\|	FOX	25/02/08

40.	#56 Cipora pontificates again	13:20	\|	Johnboy	25/02/08

41.	#81 wher are palestinian lands mr know f all ?	13:22	\|	v hardman	25/02/08

42.	YES To Jewish State , NO To Dhimmitude	13:37	\|	Joseph . E	25/02/08

43.	Johnboy	13:48	\|	Patricia	25/02/08

44.	So far no news of the various peace&leftist groups assembling on	14:04	\|	lakshmi	25/02/08

45.	# 95 lakshmi....no peace activists?	14:30	\|	Lynn	25/02/08

46.	The IDF Has Used Bullets Before	14:55	\|	Yaakov Sullivan	25/02/08

47.	#86 No, you are both wrong Patricia	14:59	\|	Johnboy	25/02/08

48.	The Pals are incapable!	15:05	\|	FOX	25/02/08

49.	Lackshmi Projecting once again #95	15:11	\|	FOX	25/02/08

50.	Somebody get this Atilla freak his meds!	15:22	\|	don	25/02/08

51.	what I learned the other day ?	15:24	\|	...	25/02/08

52.	Violence takes longer, but will win even more	15:26	\|	Tosefta	25/02/08

53.	I love Atilla a lot. Such a great soul he has	15:28	\|	Lynn	25/02/08

54.	Atilla ! would you marry me ?	15:28	\|	Lynn	25/02/08

55.	# 95 lakshmi...probably upset about the Israeli boy	15:30	\|	Lynn	25/02/08

56.	MY TV PROJECT ! ALL WORLD WILL WATCH IT WITH CARE !	15:34	\|	...	25/02/08

57.	guys ! do you think I GET A NOBEL for my project ?	15:38	\|	...	25/02/08

58.	we ar at begining of this conflict. it started	15:40	\|	triska	25/02/08

59.	I wonder if I have enemy !	15:46	\|	...	25/02/08

60.	Lynn loves Atilla	15:47	\|	AliciaYasmeen	25/02/08

61.	David of Kfar Saba	15:48	\|	Jud	25/02/08

62.	WE MUST HAVE STRONG UN	15:57	\|	...	25/02/08

63.	An excellent Point	15:58	\|	American Patriot	25/02/08

64.	Lustral shakes my mouth	16:02	\|	...	25/02/08

65.	Josh #78 Isrealis Westerners?	16:04	\|	American Patriot	25/02/08

66.	#5 IndoBoyo & smells	16:12	\|	Joe Moer	25/02/08

67.	Nows The Time For A Good Ole Southern Barbeque	16:12	\|	Yosemite	25/02/08

68.	Violence takes longer, but will win even more	16:43	\|	Tosefta	25/02/08

69.	last saturday morning ...	16:46	\|	...	25/02/08

70.	If Arafat Was Ghandi	16:54	\|	Proud Israeli	25/02/08

71.	wheather is very good here, just like summer	16:54	\|	...	25/02/08

72.	The Ultimate Doomsday Weapon: Is Between The Ears	17:00	\|	Joseph E . post 1	25/02/08

73.	"Winning",	17:01	\|	Joseph E . post 2	25/02/08

74.	Israel`s Secret Weapons - Pigs and Dogs	17:01	\|	The Archives	25/02/08

75.	Logic of Author Belies his point	17:02	\|	Woody	25/02/08

76.	I love atilla	17:02	\|	lynn	25/02/08

77.	Lynn ! stay out of atilla	17:03	\|	Tali	25/02/08

78.	I also feel sorry for the people of sderot	17:05	\|	...	25/02/08

79.	we cant find a solution with talking about religions	17:10	\|	...	25/02/08

80.	CAN YOU FEEL THE PEACE WITH YOUR SOUL? ISRAEL	17:10	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

81.	IF MUSLIMS CAN READ AND WRITE THEY CAN MAKE PEACE WITH ISRAEL	17:11	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

82.	ARABS NEED MORE EDUCATION THEN IT WILL BE PEACE	17:12	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

83.	ARABS NEED MORE SCIENCE AND DEMOCRATHY TO MAKE PEACE	17:14	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

84.	THERE IS NO FREEDOM IN THE MUSLIM WORLD LIKE IN ISRAEL	17:15	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

85.	ARABS WANT DEMOCRATHY LIKE IN ISRAEL	17:16	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

86.	ISRAEL IS A BIG SUCCESS BUT MUSLIMS ARE POOR AND IGNORANT	17:18	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

87.	MUSLIMS SPEND THEIR ENERGY ON WARS NOT PEACE LIKE ISRAEL	17:19	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

88.	IN INDONESIA THERE IS NO HIGH TECK LIKE IN ISRAEL, PITY	17:20	\|	ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU	25/02/08

89.	#29 idrajaya	17:22	\|	danny	25/02/08

90.	Cool down Attila	17:25	\|	Avrum	25/02/08

91.	ATTILLA	17:30	\|	danny	25/02/08

92.	Culture	17:35	\|	Danite	25/02/08

93.	FOX would Canadians do?	17:38	\|	Danite	25/02/08

94.	Tzfonit	17:41	\|	Danite	25/02/08

95.	today is egg on face day for the anti israel brigade	17:42	\|	v hardman	25/02/08

96.	73Mr.Know it All,the withdrawal should be to the Partition Line	17:42	\|	lakshmi	25/02/08

97.	Josh, Israel started the first/second intifaddeh	18:05	\|	Ibrahim	25/02/08

98.	Churchill`s wisdom for Slowman	18:06	\|	Bursting Brad	25/02/08

99.	Danite #108 Hamas and Non-Violence	18:36	\|	Tzfonit	25/02/08

100.	weak analysis, weak arguments, poor conclusion. too bad	18:44	\|	ralph	25/02/08

101.	What does marching INTO Israel have to do with INDEPENDENCE?	19:03	\|	McQueen	25/02/08

102.	Comparing Brits/India with Israel/palestine mostly bogus	19:03	\|	Voice of Reason	25/02/08

103.	#56 your post is illogical as usual	19:06	\|	McQueen	25/02/08

104.	Peace was turned down 8/2000, now it`s too late!!	19:07	\|	Dr Eric	25/02/08

105.	When were Palestinians Non-Violent?	19:09	\|	Efox	25/02/08

106.	PALESTINIAN SUPPORTERS FACE UP TO REALITY!!!	19:13	\|	DR ERIC	25/02/08

107.	If I`m not mistaken McQueen, what 56 is saying	19:25	\|	Tzfonit	25/02/08

108.	You nervous Ibrahim	19:28	\|	Johnny	25/02/08

109.	Efox, That is a Silly Question	19:39	\|	Bernie	25/02/08

110.	63Voice of Reason,the real agenda of the israeli left&many others	19:51	\|	lakshmi	25/02/08

111.	oh my gosh Bradly spoke common sense	20:02	\|	Adrian de Klerk	25/02/08

112.	Dear Bradely Burston,	20:10	\|	Yechiel Haredi	25/02/08

113.	Dear Yaakov Sullivan,	20:17	\|	Simeon ben Jacob	25/02/08

114.	Dearest #30,	20:20	\|	Yechiel	25/02/08

115.	Israel Is Totally Unprepared For This Phenomenon	20:21	\|	Yaakov Sullivan	25/02/08

116.	Kill All Our Enemies!!	20:23	\|	Marvin P.	25/02/08

117.	this is what`s called reverse psychology	20:29	\|	x-ray	25/02/08

118.	#71 Adrian de Klerk	20:32	\|	tbora	25/02/08

119.	IF (2ndtry)	20:46	\|	Danite	25/02/08

120.	Danite	20:49	\|	Gina	25/02/08

121.	Gina	21:20	\|	Danite	25/02/08

122.	Ibrahim	21:22	\|	Danite	25/02/08

123.	Danite-you can`t overcome the bigottry?	21:28	\|	Ibrahim	25/02/08

124.	# 61 Ibrahim plays the court jester again	21:32	\|	Sandman	25/02/08

125.	lakshmi -- Are Jews going to be allowed?	21:38	\|	bbl	25/02/08

126.	Danite, likewise	21:43	\|	Ibrahim	25/02/08

127.	# 61 Jester wanted	21:47	\|	Sandman	25/02/08

128.	Danite	21:49	\|	Gina	25/02/08

129.	Cipora: An impressive new low	21:58	\|	Aaron Levitt	25/02/08

130.	#54	22:07	\|	B	25/02/08

131.	ISRAEL IS THE VIOLENT AGGRESSOR	22:08	\|	JH	25/02/08

132.	"Are Jews going to be allowed?"	22:17	\|	Aaron Levitt	25/02/08

133.	#83, Aaron, read your sidur	22:20	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

134.	Don`t Taze Me, Bro!	22:20	\|	Jeff Northridge	25/02/08

135.	To Ibrahim from Josh -- Don`t lie either	22:24	\|	Josh	25/02/08

136.	Palestinian terrorism as a upward moble "career"	22:25	\|	Sandman	25/02/08

137.	To American Patriot -- You obviously flunked history in school	22:27	\|	Josh	25/02/08

138.	#40, jb, "move closely ressembles French revolution"	22:30	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

139.	Obama the Arab	22:41	\|	FOX	25/02/08

140.	Ibrahim your answer	22:46	\|	danite	25/02/08

141.	Gina	22:48	\|	danite	25/02/08

142.	79 bbl,my understanding is that the Palestinian state will grant	22:54	\|	lakshmi	25/02/08

143.	What does Israel do to those who do not fire rockets...	23:04	\|	Maureen Ann	25/02/08

144.	Sandman, is that all you have?	23:12	\|	Ibrahim	25/02/08

145.	Linthwaite wouldn`t know apartheid if it hit him in the face	23:17	\|	Joe Sittizen	25/02/08

146.	Hamas` non-violence=credibility PROBLEM!!!	23:22	\|	akiva (zionist)	25/02/08

147.	Indy, old boy...	23:28	\|	The Seer	25/02/08

148.	Haaretz where are my posts to jb & aaron levitt	23:30	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	25/02/08

149.	Danite, there`s more...	23:33	\|	Ibrahim	25/02/08

150.	#61 Ibrahim, why engage in untruth?	23:36	\|	fiona	25/02/08

151.	#89 Maureen Ann did you start the reading program	23:41	\|	fiona	25/02/08

152.	frickin` dense, Maureen Ann	23:42	\|	akiva (zionist)	25/02/08

153.	Prison out break?	23:43	\|	oliver	25/02/08

154.	Non-violence	23:44	\|	Ken Miles	25/02/08

155.	"whatever country they came from", - Lakshmi	23:46	\|	akiva (zionist)	25/02/08

156.	Prison breakout?	23:49	\|	oliver	25/02/08

157.	v hardman # 59 would that be powered eggs or the real thing	23:52	\|	terrornator	25/02/08

158.	Ibrahim of MI	23:58	\|	akiva (zionist)	25/02/08

159.	Peter Sm read reports	00:09	\|	Truths	26/02/08

160.	#97 try as i might i cannot understand moaning anns comments	00:11	\|	v hardman	26/02/08

161.	Absolutly TRUE	00:18	\|	Tupac	26/02/08

162.	10 Dipora: What about violating Pal human rights?	00:20	\|	Tupac	26/02/08

163.	Non-violence	00:25	\|	Sol	26/02/08

164.	"TRUTHS" reports for you of ongoing violence during"ceasefire"	00:34	\|	PETER SM	26/02/08

165.	Truths, probably not your name, right?Q	00:36	\|	akiva (zionist)	26/02/08

166.	"TRUTHS"Indonesians slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Chinese	00:44	\|	PETER SM	26/02/08

167.	#92 Time to think again, Cipora	01:08	\|	Johnboy	26/02/08

168.	#83 Arrrgh! You beat me too it, Aaron.	01:16	\|	Johnboy	26/02/08

169.	#112 Truth is	01:36	\|	fiona	26/02/08

170.	#104 Clever educated Fiona. Hello.	02:05	\|	Maureen Ann	26/02/08

171.	#114 Fiona.	02:09	\|	Maureen Ann	26/02/08

172.	Oliver 109	02:12	\|	ChanahS	26/02/08

173.	#105 akiva (Zionist)	02:16	\|	Maureen Ann	26/02/08

174.	Doomsday Weapon And Rocket science	02:32	\|	Tim R	26/02/08

175.	Fiona Hamas did not fire rockets look at Israeli sources	02:46	\|	Truth	26/02/08

176.	Fiona please learn recent history	02:48	\|	Truth	26/02/08

177.	Josh and westerners	02:50	\|	Truth	26/02/08

178.	Akiva	03:05	\|	Ibrahim	26/02/08

179.	#115 Maureen	03:14	\|	TOBIA	26/02/08

180.	re: Bernie	03:25	\|	Efox	26/02/08

181.	#105 Heaven knows we`re paying, right Akiva?	03:28	\|	MaryRose	26/02/08

182.	Ibraham, Lakshi, Akiva, Peter SM, everyone....	03:32	\|	Dave from Chicago	26/02/08

183.	What Borders - Tosefta	03:41	\|	Mark Lincoln	26/02/08

184.	Violence takes longer - Tosefta	03:43	\|	Mark Lincoln	26/02/08

185.	Truths? #112 You Can Read Reports in Haaretz (2nd Try)	04:22	\|	Tim R	26/02/08

186.	Dave From chicago #136 An Excellent Proposal	04:30	\|	Tim R	26/02/08

187.	Indrajaya#11 - "I can smell it"	04:48	\|	William	26/02/08

188.	#136 Dave from Chicago	04:53	\|	Johnboy	26/02/08

189.	Is Dave`s plan fair? I	05:09	\|	Aaron Levitt	26/02/08

190.	IF	05:10	\|	Sabra	26/02/08

191.	Mareen Ann	05:13	\|	Sabra	26/02/08

192.	Is Dave`s plan fair? II	05:23	\|	Aaron Levitt	26/02/08

193.	Ibrahim	06:40	\|	Danite	26/02/08

194.	"TRUTH"Terror under multiple names while feigning innocence.	06:47	\|	PETER SM	26/02/08

195.	# 124 Maureen Ann, Churchill `warmonger"?	07:14	\|	fiona	26/02/08

196.	"Palistine"? isn`t that like Oz? as I recall it isn`t on a map.	08:21	\|	Fakestine	26/02/08

197.	Hamas imitating Gandhi?	08:26	\|	enrique	26/02/08

198.	To Truth -- Jews and Westerners	08:28	\|	Josh	26/02/08

199.	TO American Patriot #51	08:35	\|	Steve Beikirch	26/02/08

200.	johnboy, your great french revolution	08:39	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	26/02/08

201.	Johnboy	09:22	\|	Steve	26/02/08

202.	Johnboy	09:33	\|	Steve	26/02/08

203.	THE IDIOT READERS OF HAARETZ	09:35	\|	Atilla Karagözoğlu	26/02/08

204.	Peter I hope you can read	09:54	\|	Truth	26/02/08

205.	Akiva Zionist can oly lie and abuse	09:59	\|	Truth	26/02/08

206.	Peter SM and nonsense	10:01	\|	Truths	26/02/08

207.	Peter Sm AL Aquasa is not Hamas	10:06	\|	Truth	26/02/08

208.	Josh and history	10:09	\|	Truth	26/02/08

209.	Tim R hoist on your own petard. IJ is not Hamas.	10:11	\|	Truth	26/02/08

210.	Playing Ostrich Politics	10:19	\|	allang	26/02/08

211.	Israel should never open Gaza crossings	10:40	\|	Rick and TC	26/02/08

212.	# 201 & #202 re:jb ..Too much to expect from that arabist jb..	11:17	\|	JOSH	26/02/08

213.	#198 Josh--To Truth -Jews and Westerners	11:28	\|	JOSH	26/02/08

214.	Truth #209 "Islamic Jihad is Not Hamas" That`s Your Response?	12:05	\|	Tim R	26/02/08

215.	# 213 To Jb,And whoever Another Truth! !	12:57	\|	JOSH	26/02/08

216.	182 Dave from Chicago,I have only one problem with your proposal;	13:49	\|	lakshmi	26/02/08

217.	To Truth #208 -- Re: Josh and history	16:06	\|	Josh	26/02/08

218.	Danite the misguided.	16:42	\|	Ibrahim	26/02/08

219.	Dave from Chitwon and Tim R the idiot	16:45	\|	Ibrahim	26/02/08

220.	# To all The So-called Truth`s Responses..	18:33	\|	JOSH	26/02/08

221.	# 152 akiva (zionist)frickin` dense, Maureen Ann	19:27	\|	JOSH	26/02/08

222.	Ibrahim, Lakshmi, Johnboy and Aarron......	19:32	\|	Dave from Chicago	26/02/08

223.	222 Dave from Chicago,the reality is that Hamas is in the driver`	20:50	\|	lakshmi	26/02/08

224.	Lakshmi, interesting post (223)	22:42	\|	Dave from Chicago	26/02/08

225.	Lakshmi II	22:54	\|	Dave from Chicago	26/02/08

226.	Laksmi III	22:57	\|	Dave from Chicago	26/02/08

227.	Palestine 1 and Palestine 2	23:42	\|	Aaron Levitt	26/02/08

228.	224 to 226 Dave from Chicago,if 1967 why not 1947? The Palestinia	00:29	\|	lakshmi	27/02/08

229.	#222 Dave from Chicago	02:04	\|	Johnboy	27/02/08

230.	Ibrahim #219 Your argument Is Not Very Convincing	02:11	\|	Tim R	27/02/08

231.	Non-Violence Incompatible with the Goal of Destroying Israel	03:20	\|	Tom	27/02/08

232.	Lakshmi and Aaron Levitt: And The One State Solution	07:04	\|	Tim R	27/02/08

233.	231 Tom,partially correct! non violence,however,is also determine	07:58	\|	lakshmi	27/02/08

234.	Atilla esta completamente desquiciado	08:31	\|	enrique	27/02/08

235.	The Real Al-Jazeera Bradley It`s Bad News	09:26	\|	Yosemite	27/02/08

236.	Cipora, if you find this answer to the other disapppeared thread	10:21	\|	S	27/02/08

237.	Tim and the "One State Solution" I	16:57	\|	Aaron Levitt	27/02/08

238.	a good idea, but...	17:10	\|	a wandering Jew	27/02/08

239.	Tim and the "One State Solution" III	17:49	\|	Aaron Levitt	27/02/08

240.	FOX #139 - that post was unworthy	22:47	\|	dana	27/02/08

241.	Aaron Levitt #237	23:58	\|	Tim R	27/02/08

242.	Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Dresden - Historical proof	00:23	\|	smarter then sully	28/02/08

243.	Tim R #241 I	01:35	\|	Aaron Levitt	28/02/08

244.	dana	03:44	\|	American in NY	28/02/08

245.	Aaron Levitt #239	06:28	\|	Tim R	28/02/08

246.	Palestinians will not suceed	11:16	\|	Gilad	28/02/08

247.	S #236 re Cipora re Tosefta Re "the Situation"	11:35	\|	dana	28/02/08

248.	Tim R IJ is not Hamas.	11:43	\|	Truth	28/02/08

249.	TIm R how reasonable!	11:48	\|	Truth	28/02/08

250.	227 Aaron Levitt	14:03	\|	a wandering Jew	28/02/08

251.	Josh - Israelis are Asian	15:59	\|	American Patriot	28/02/08

252.	It is NO WONDER that the Arab League Disasslociated	16:55	\|	Dagma	28/02/08

253.	To American Patriot -- Well that settles the argument then	18:12	\|	Josh	28/02/08

254.	dana #247	19:32	\|	S	28/02/08

255.	What Rubbish??!!	21:21	\|	Realist	28/02/08

256.	#253, S	00:31	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	29/02/08

257.	#247, dana	00:37	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	29/02/08

258.	Do not fear Israel, the weapon against Arab non-violence is Islam	01:38	\|	Genuine Tosefta	29/02/08

259.	#233 lashkmi - wholly incorrect	02:02	\|	Tom	29/02/08

260.	Cipora #254	09:23	\|	S	29/02/08

261.	Truth #248 The Pals Idea of What A Truce IS!	10:00	\|	Tim R	29/02/08

262.	Truth #249 Regarding The One State Solution	10:10	\|	Tim R	29/02/08

263.	To Josh Israelis are Asians	16:01	\|	American Patriot	29/02/08

264.	#247, dana	16:58	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	29/02/08

265.	To American Patriot #260 -- Let`s have a pleasant discussion then	18:56	\|	Josh	29/02/08

266.	Palestinian non-violence	03:04	\|	Michael Millenson	01/03/08

267.	Michael Millenson #263 Well Said..	04:01	\|	Tim R	01/03/08

268.	what a croc	19:33	\|	agokoy	01/03/08

269.	Palestinian action agains Israel is mostly nonviolent.	20:02	\|	Jack	01/03/08

270.	the lies of the self deluded	04:12	\|	ricki bobbi	03/03/08

271.	ricki bobbi #270 People Like You Are The Only Cowards..	09:39	\|	Tim R	03/03/08

272.	indrajaya	22:27	\|	kraven moorehead	03/03/08

273.	Tim R raed details of barak`s proposal	02:13	\|	Truth	04/03/08

274.	Truth #272 Barak`s Proposal	09:17	\|	Tim R	04/03/08

275.	Gandhi	10:32	\|	David	04/03/08

276.	Will There Be Peace In Middle East	07:06	\|	Padi	08/03/09

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