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MSimon wrote:The Lebanon adventure was instructive. The Israelis leveled everything the Palis owned until there were no more useful targets.

That would be a War Crime under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention ...

Is this your homework? It's quite a while since I had homework to mark, and even longer since I had homework to do. I'll give you some help: Let theta be the angle between the rod and the vertical. The tension in the rod due to the weight of the mass is then mg cos(theta) [1] The kinetic energy of ...

A point mass m is attached to one end of a rod of negligible mass and length l. The rod is suspended by its other end from a frictionless pivot, so that it can swing freely in a vertical plane, and is lifted to the horizontal and released. What is the average downwards force exerted by the rod on t...

You may be missing the point. For Catholics in Northern Ireland, it wasn't the absence of jobs but the absence of justice that was the problem. Denial of employment was the symptom rather than the cause. Discrimination against Palestinians and in favour of Jews is endemic in almost every aspect of I...

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MSimon wrote:As I understand it justice for the IRA was a general amnesty. None of their political demands were met. You will correct me if I'm in error.

It wasn't justice for the IRA that brought peace. It was justice for the ordinary Catholics who were being denied jobs on religious grounds.

Israelis have lots of ways of humiliating Palestinians. Like bulldozing their houses and building security walls on their land. All the Arabs have to do to end that is make peace. And you will note that the security wall was in response to the Pali tactic of suicide bombing. The Palis wanted war. T...

The knowledge available to the Jews was available to the Arabs. Certainly by the time the Jews started improving the area the Arabs could have learned from them. This is certainly true, though during Ottoman times the more able found opportunities elsewhere. For the ones who stayed, the lack of wat...

Read Mark Twain's account of Israel in his travels. A desolate place devoid of inhabitants. Since this is often quoted, it's worth understanding why it's misleading. Ottoman statistics put the population of Palestine in 1860 as 411,000 in a land area of roughly 40,000 square miles. Greece, which Ma...

The same has happened to Hamas leadership. The leadership gains more from war than from peace. I have more respect for the political skills of Hamas than you appear to. They're having to learn diplomacy the hard way, though. Reducing support for "Peace" in Israel from 50% to 4% is no doubt a sign o...

The IRA was in the main defeated because they had devolved into a criminal gang. They lost the support of the people. This was certainly true of the splinter groups like the INLA, but hardly ever true of the IRA itself, and then not for long. Their enforcement of discipline was brutally effective. ...

MSimon wrote:First they have to be vanquished. Left without hope that further military adventures will avail.

Then you deal with their dignity.

The Palestinians feel they have only lost another battle.

The war will continue.

That's just how the Brits felt about the IRA. It never worked.

Perhaps, but if Americans had paid more attention to it at the Treaty of Versailles the last century might have turned out rather differently. I am not sure what you want to say with this. Can you please specify. I mean I generally agree, but I am not sure that I like the context with dignity and a...

A people who have no dignity in life have little fear of death. Great. A platitude. Perhaps, but if Americans had paid more attention to it at the Treaty of Versailles the last century might have turned out rather differently. I'll bet this is just such a platitude (among others) that Hamas tells d...

The IRA's goal was to turn Ireland into a Socialist paradise and satellite of the Soviet Union. Just like the Red Brigades and all the other terrorist/revolutionary groups spawned by the KGB in the '60s and '70s. When the big red bear sugar daddy died so did the IRA. Not sure where you go for infor...