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lunedì, giugno 21, 2004
Forza Israele. Ad alcuni potrebbe essere sfuggito l'articolo di Charles Krauthammer su come Israele stia sconfiggendo la cosiddetta seconda Intifada.
While no one was looking, something historic happened in the Middle East. The Palestinian intifada is over, and the Palestinians have lost. The end of the intifada does not mean the end of terrorism. There was terrorism before the intifada and there will be terrorism to come. What has happened, however, is an end to systematic, regular, debilitating, unstoppable terror -- terror as a reliable weapon. At the height of the intifada, there were nine suicide attacks in Israel killing 85 Israelis in just one month (March 2002). In the past three months there have been none. The overall level of violence has been reduced by more than 70 percent. How did Israel do it? By ignoring its critics and launching a two-pronged campaign of self-defense. Poi ci sarebbe questo che spiega perchè gli arabi israeliani vedano con favore la barriera difensiva eretta dal governo Sharon: Since the fence's completion in their areas last August, many Arab communities – especially those bordering Palestinian villages – have enjoyed a spike in both security and economic activity, as Arabs who once hauled back millions of shekels worth of wares from Jenin now shop locally. "God be blessed, the fence ended the parade of terrorists through this city and gave us an economic boom and increased security," says Umm el-Fahm City Manager Tawfiq Karaman. |
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