http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/ph02.html

So far as I know, resolutions don't do much of anything. They are a nice way of distilling international opinion, however.

I have a lot of sympathy for both sides of the Isreal-Palestine struggle. I cannot imagine what it must be like to be an Israeli and live with the knowledge that people who are virtually next door are constantly devising ways of randomly killing civilians. (As much as we hear Al Qaeda talk about attacking Americans everywhere, I don't think we can really appreciate this to the same extent.) At the same time, the Palestinians have suffered tremendously - first they're evicted from their lands, then they're forced to live under the Israeli occupation. Even the ones that live in neighboring Arab countries don't have much more than refugee status.

The situation has gotten infinitely worse since Rabin was assassinated. I think he was probably the only one who had both the desire for peace, and the credibility to make it happen. It always ends up this way, doesn't it?

-anthony