"For They Have Sown the Wind…
and they shall reap the whirlwind. (Hosea 8:7-8 KJV)”
The Belmont Club points to a fellow blogger, Augean Stables, who has an extensive quote from an Egyptian blogger. In the quoted text, the Egyptian laments that the push to eradicate Israel has bred a culture where the only recourse to solve problems is violence.
Augean Stables » Egyptian comments on Gaza (the quoted text from his site)
“It is definitely all of this. But the most dangerous thing about this, and that which the bilateral meetings between the sides, or meetings under the auspices of a third party, or even the folkloric Arab League summits have been unable to overcome, is that the all-against-all infighting and its basic code have become the mental and psychological makeup of the Palestinian people, as a natural result of the predominant discourse of hostility and incitement. [This discourse] has been adopted by Palestinians of all persuasions and in all the factions - religious, pan-Arab revolutionary, and leftist. It is a discourse whose aim was sowing hatred, having recourse to violence, and enjoying spilling blood.
“At first it was directed against the so-called the Israeli enemy, and it uprooted any possibility of or tendency towards rational mutual comprehension or of recourse to discussion, dialogue, and negotiation - what is known as peaceful resolution - and it raised the slogan of ‘clinging to the choice of resistance.’
“But one clings to goals, not methods, and resistance (meaning armed resistance) cannot, psychologically and culturally, be the only choice for peoples to achieve their goals, without there being any alternative”
Once you stop thinking of alternatives to come to a solution, you’ve thrown away most of your tool box.
And, as the saying goes, “if all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.”
