Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: New Israeli search method at West Bank checkpoint worries Palestinians [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)By the logic of your argument, the occupation should not only have not produced Hamas, it should have wiped out the PLO(which it never did)and produced, instead, a Palestinian leadership that would happily have settled for Begin's proposals for Tibetan-style "autonomy", giving up on self-determination forever(which, the Israeli government liked to pretend, Palestinians supposedly never actually wanted until some "leadership" put ideas in their heads). Yet, nothing remotely like that occurred, did it?
BTW, you do realize that, in Northern Ireland, military occupation was utterly useless at stopping violent resistance there-as it was in North America in the late 18th century, right? Or in Afghanistan at ANY point since the Brits were driven out of the Khyber Pass?