Regarding the above, that’s how stupid they are. But I digress. The worlds most successful terrorist is Nelson Mandela, closely followed by Martin McGuinness who had a spectacular win creating Bloody Sunday. If you look at the alphabet soup of terrorist organisations over the past ‘so long,’ the one identifier that separates these two from the pack is one word, negotiation. They both negotiated, by which I mean that they used the sword to force their opposition to opposition to the table & negotiated an outcome, to the benefit of all. With 20 million black South Africans & 4 million whites, it could have gone very badly, which is the point as when you achieve parity the violence becomes secondary, it’s served it’s purpose. To wit, Mandela said lay down your arms, we live together now. McGuinness’ path was more circular, but achieved the same goal as a representative firstly of the PIRA & then Sinn Fein & one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement.
I use these two men to illustrate what can be achieved at the point of a gun, but at a critical point, violence is put aside. The list of terrorist groups that don’t get it is long & any acronym you can immediately conjure up comes to mind, let alone The Liberation Tiigers Of Tamil Eelam (one of the best IMO) the Shining Path, the Weather Men & the Symbionese Liberation Army. The trouble with HAMAS is that in their charter is non negotiation with the state of Israel, which is a fatal flaw. I would mention that radicals on both sides have had a hand in where they find themselves to wit; Yitgzac Rabin & Anwar Sadat, but be that as it may, there have some close calls & about five maybe six attempts at finding a way forward, the best under Ehud Barack, but no, rejected by the other side as not being enough. The Free Palestine rabble will be defeated again, due to this sticking point of non negotiation, another glorious defeat in the cause of Islam, by the evil western powers of domination. Palestine needs to be free, but free from the terrorist HAMAS entity, no more, no less. My analysis fails me with what the endgame look like, who looks after ‘the Palestinians’ those who are the residents of Gaza & the West Bank when all this terrible carnage is finished, for they seem to be seperate from HAMAS, similar to the Kashmiris who just want to poke along, raise their kids, pay their dues.
BTW, not fuelled by single malt this time around, but rather a spanking Limestone Coast Cab Sav, you guys…Californian wines, get serious…Peace Out.
