[CASA] My only email on the subject, I promise.

[Jeanne Curran]

Mark, Hugo, and All,

I'm grateful for this dialog on CASA.. I am caught up in many issues, 
and cannot stay abreast of them all. To that end, the original 
postings were helpful.

I feel as Mark says, that it is very hard to take a side (a 
practical, not a moral side) from such a distance. I guess what I 
mean by that is that  I can't lay blame and offer reasonable 
solutions to a situation I can only imagine in horror. I don't 
consider violence rational - witness Bush's apparent acceptance of 
this latest turn and his misunderstandings in "Stop that Shit!", but 
I do have very strong feelings that Israel is sometimes unfairly 
blamed for being surrounded by those who condone some of the violence 
but not a violent response that is greater than "proportionality 
would warrant." Proportionality suggests rational behavior - 
proportionality in killing non-combatant humans is an oxymoron. Once 
you've loosed the violence, in all its ugliness, no one really 
controls rationally anymore. And I don't think any people, as a 
monolithic group, has a corner on non-violence.

love and peace to all the earth's people, jeanne