This is how it begins. Makes you optimistic for the debate to come.
"John Hawkins: To begin with, do you think the "Roadmap to Peace" can succeed?
Charles Johnson: Nope. That was easy.
Damian Penny: The Roadmap looks OK on paper, but it's meaningless until the Palestinian culture of hate is changed. That, more than anything else, is the real problem.
Charles Johnson: It's based on the same old denial of reality that has failed time and again. The reality of Arab rejection of Israel's right to exist.
Then it continues;
"John Hawkins: Do you think a majority of Palestinians want peace?
John Little: On their terms maybe.
Ben Shapiro: Their terms being no Israel.
Damian Penny: No. The problem is, most Palestinians simply do not want a two-state solution. They've been force-fed propaganda and myths about it for 50 years.
Charles Johnson: Every poll of Palestinians seems to indicate they are still caught up in the dream of destroying Israel."
This remark is probably the single most absurd;
"Allison Kaplan Sommer: The goal is for everyone to leave each other the heck alone. "
Or perhaps it's not. Here's the solution two of them come up with;
"Ben Shapiro: What I'm proposing is transferring the fanatics...all 3 million of them.
Damian Penny: The worst of the worst, the terror leaders, the genocide-inciters...I have no problem with transferring them."
posted by Matthew @ 5/12/2003 07:35:00 PM
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