Communication
Contributions from readers who didn't object to having
their email published in Vagabond Pages.
Sometimes I don't receive an answer to my request to publish a letter and I don't know how to interpret it. So I've decided to simplify things and not oblige readers to answer. The most recent letters are at the top of the page. WM
They hate us for our beliefs ...,
Israel, Hezbollah -- Serbs, Kosovo ...,
"Gaza is Free ..." ...,
"First Peace, then Negotiations" ...
August 11 -- no new ideas from President Bush. I read in the New York Times that from his ranch in Texas he spouted this insight: "... we're still not completely safe because there are people that still plot and people who want to harm us for what we believe in." Well, I myself believe that the church I belong to was the original church and I also believe that those Orthodox people are pretty good people. Anybody coming to get me?
Nikole
nikole@idirect.ca
I read in Serbian sources that if Israel has a right to defend itself against Hezbollah, the Serbs have a right to defend themselves in Kosovo. I think the Serbs are too generous to Israel when they compare those situations. Fighting Hezbollah, Israel isn't defending its right to exist but to maintain the status quo which includes keeping the West Bank and the Golan Heights. It was the Serbs who had their genuine rights denied to them. They have a right to defend Kosovo. They were the majority until World War Two. Then they stopped to be one thanks to combined actions of Albanians and Nazis, and after the war, the Communists, who, in the name of ‘national reconciliation’ denied return of Serbian refugees to Kosovo. All these horrendous injustices to Serbs were sealed by the recent NATO-KLA alliance’s war on Kosovo.
Jonathon X
jonathon_xer@hotmail.com
Vagabond,
You regularly state that all the israelis need to do is to make the settlers give up their homes and then there wont be any reason for the Palestinians to fight. I can’t agree. Today I saw an article by Charles Krauthammer in Time Magazine with the subtitle, “Gaza is freed, yet Gaza wages war. That reveals the Palestinians’ true agenda." I couldn’t say it better.
Carl B.
wellfocused@hotmail.com
Frankly, I don’t understand what you disagree about. I rather disagree with Charles Krauthammer, who declares: “Gaza is free.” Is Gaza a country? No, Gaza is a part
of an entity called “Palestine” and the problem will not be resolved as long as the peace agreement initiated by Saddat and signed by Saddat and Begin, is not honoured. WM
William,
In your article, "When the Lie is Repeated, It Becomes Truth", you object to the fact that when Bush and Sharon met they said:"First you make peace and then we negotiate." You say it shows disdain for the weaker adversary. But isn't it normal procedure to have a ceasefire while negotiating?
This question was put to me verbally and I answer it here: Bush and Sharon required a unilateral ceasefire before negotiation -- which boils down to an ultimatum. This is not the way Rabin was talking, and threfore there was trust on both sides. Using Sharon's visit to the States to launch Bush - Sharon ultimatum to the Palestinians on TV was a very clumsy and provocative step. WM
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