No wonder there's a problem

[avinalarf]

Just got home from work,logged into the topic about Labour and anti semitism and bingo....the topic's been
closed down.
I just can't trust you lot to keep things friendly.
So if PHers can't debate this Israeli/Palestine topic in a gentlemanly manner what chance for those with a real bone
In the fight.
Seems to prove a point.

[avinalarf]

I must admit to a morbid curiosity as to who and why the topic was closed down.
It depresses me when people have such entrenched viewpoints.
Perhaps it's my fault as I usually see things in shades of grey as often most topics in life are never completely black or white.
The statement that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is certainly a case in point.
The true irony of the Israeli/Palestinian problem is that both Jews and Muslims are both hostage to the same misfortune.
Neither have leaders that have a true vision of a peaceful settlement and so in this vacuum the fringe fanatics,on both sides,hold sway.
It's only when you get a truly great leader like Nelson Mandela that things start to change.

Edited by avinalarf on Thursday 28th April 18:51

[avinalarf]

Einion Yrth said:

avinalarf said:

It's only when you get a truly great leader like Nelson Mandela that things start to change.

While I don't entirely disagree, post apartheid SA is scarcely a utopia.

I referred to a great leader and a man wth vision not a Messiah.
Having spent so many of his best years in prison it is remarkable how he overcame the natural desire for retribution but chose instead reconciliation.
You only have to look at Mugabe in Zimbabwe to see the difference.