May 1, 2003
JKali65: in your blog you fail to bring up the economic price that Israel paid for giving them peace
JKali65: i mean giving peace a chance
skalifowitz: I didn't want to deal with it
JKali65: ah
JKali65: ok
skalifowitz: that's a whole nother blog
JKali65: then you should erase the section on Israel being a strong economy back then
skalifowitz: my simple point is that while some may claim that "uprising" is an appropriate phrase
skalifowitz: I don't agree- they had nothing to rise up from
skalifowitz: Israel was doing really well
skalifowitz: and rather than leave the palestinians behind
skalifowitz: they gave them the opportunity to ride the wave
skalifowitz: and they were riding the wave - the palestinians went from literally having nothing, to having a sovereign radio stations, tv stations, an airport, even a casino! (which, by the way, Israelis spent a lot of money at)
skalifowitz: but after 7 years, the pals' realized they weren't getting all of Israel, and that the Israelis were going to stay around in the end,
skalifowitz: so they said fuck it
skalifowitz: we're going to war again
skalifowitz: bottom line: in 1948, the Palestinians thought they could fight a war and get rid of the Jews, because they belived the UN cut them a bad deal by offering to give even one square meter of land to the Jews. They lost.
skalifowitz: in the '80's the Palestinians once again tried to get rid of the Jews (this time they tried to do it on their own, b/c the other Arab nations had been humiliated enough in 4 prior wars).
skalifowitz: in 1993, Israel pacified the Palestinians by offering them a state, and sovreignty - in exchange for one thing - peace.
skalifowitz: If I had to guess, I'd assume that the Palestinians thought that finally, there was a plan in place that would give them a state... but that their state would be all of what Israel is today. After 7 years they realized that they were going to be given less land than what they were offered in 1948, they realized that they had been conned, and decided to go to war once again. And here we are.
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