http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/israeli-defense-minister-calls-gaza-truce-a-success.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Mon, 28 May 2012 03:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/israeli-defense-minister-calls-gaza-truce-a-success.html/comment-page-1#comment-54725 charles Keating Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/israeli-defense-minister-calls-gaza-truce-a-success.html#comment-54725 <p>Is not the core problem just another version of the oppressed becoming the oppressor? If so, shouldn't any plan for peace stress less the the existence of any present and future nation state, and more, minority protection? </p> Is not the core problem just another version of the oppressed becoming the oppressor? If so, shouldn't any plan for peace stress less the the existence of any present and future nation state, and more, minority protection?

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/israeli-defense-minister-calls-gaza-truce-a-success.html/comment-page-1#comment-54726 morris Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/israeli-defense-minister-calls-gaza-truce-a-success.html#comment-54726 <p>The Israeli economic blockade is still active (maybe to a lesser extent).<br /> So the truce has been a success for tunnel building.</p> The Israeli economic blockade is still active (maybe to a lesser extent).
So the truce has been a success for tunnel building.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/israeli-defense-minister-calls-gaza-truce-a-success.html/comment-page-1#comment-54727 charles Keating Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/israeli-defense-minister-calls-gaza-truce-a-success.html#comment-54727 <p>A follow up: When does the need to protect minorities supercede the need to protect the majority, i.e., if there is no longer a worthy majority culture and structure, then what is there but a giant hole--to be filled by whichever group can do it? What does anyone reading this wish to impose on the whole, absent the pre-1965 American culture and its principles? </p> A follow up: When does the need to protect minorities supercede the need to protect the majority, i.e., if there is no longer a worthy majority culture and structure, then what is there but a giant hole–to be filled by whichever group can do it? What does anyone reading this wish to impose on the whole, absent the pre-1965 American culture and its principles?

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