RE: Any good African airlines?

Ethiopian don’t have a bad rep. But if these things are anything to go by…their 757’s always seem to be very dirty!

RE: Israel vs Palestine

If the Germans had won the Battle of Britian and a conquered British people had resorted to terrorism against Germany…

Is there anything wrong in that, per se?

RE: Israel vs Palestine

Talking of GLORIFYING, INDOCTRINATING, SUPPLYING…

How come so many high profile Americans (traditionally from around Boston and New York) support the IRA??

Rich, dumb people with no sense of reality who like to romanticise terrorism…the Palestinians aint exactly alone in this….

The peace plan which seems to have shocked most of you because of Arafat’s lacklustre consideration…well, “withdrawal” did not mean complete withdrawal, but only withdrawal to prescribed limits. It kind of legitimised the Israeli land grab. To use the Gulf analogy again..

Imagine……Saddam “gives back” Kuwait City to the Kuwaitis but keeps the rest of the Kingdom. And then everyone criticises Kuwait for not wanting peace????

RE: Israel vs Palestine

Can I just suggest a correction to the initial post in this thread; Arafat does not actually hate Jews I don’t think.

I also do not believe that Turkey would assist Israel as was implied – it is really in Turkey’s best interests to see Iraq stabilised => therefore an Iraqi/Israeli conflict would be undesirable.

RE: Brekaing News about Kabir

Poor guy.

How about a petition from the forum members – if any of you think this will actually be useful?

RE: New Jumbo Variant

Virgin have bars – certainly on their 747 fleet.

Only in upper class though (ie at the front of the aircraft)

I mention this as they are shortly to be serving Australia, apparently.

RE: MID EAST :PEACE IS THE SOLUTION.

I wasn’t making any point about IQ tests other than an exasperated one; it takes two to tango and I do not understand taking one side over the other.

Sure, a Palestinian state has been offered before – George Dubya even offered it again, post 9/11.

But the point is that the Palestinians do not just want the “cast offs” that Israel is willing to give up. They want the lot. The plan by Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the moment is for Israel to return all the “recently” occupied lands in exchange for peace. Who knows if this will work.

Palestinians want the land; so do Israelis.

Who should have it??

My answer is – neither and both. Israel deserves it no more than the Palestinians do and the status quo is therefore incorrect.

As has been said, people far more intelligent and learned than I have failed to solve this problem. But the answer might lie in power sharing – a state run for all the peoples of the area, by all the peoples of the area. Maybe under a UN mandate.