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Myself

Hi,

My name is Doug Danner, and I'm a software engineer. I'm intereseted in History and Politics.

I intend to work on enforcing accuracy in articles relating to the middle east (See: CAMERA for more details.) There are too many contributors that will simply inject propaganda into this site. Either provide a link from a credible source, or keep your theories to yourself.

I'm proudly a Zionist, and believe in the right of Jews to live and take refuge in Israel. I also support the creation of a Palestinian state, and hope that the conflict resolves itself justly through negotiations.

I believe that the greatest obstacle for a negotiated solution to the conflict lays in militant extremism - that of Jewish settlers and to a greater extent Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. I don't see this sort of Islamic terrorism as legitimate militancy as it strives for the destruction of Israel and the murder and expultion of it's citizens. They're hardly partners for peace. For all of those dellusional people who believe that they're just a reaction to Isreal please note that bus bombings etc' started in 1994 while the Oslo process was still in its euphoric phase. If anything, the success of Israel in defeating suicide bombings in 2004 has shown that applying military pressure to these organizations works, and that there is little reason to capitulate to their brutality. However, the non terrorist majority of both nations deserves a peace deal.

As for the elected leaders of Israel and Palestine (Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat), have both failed their people. I would like to see Israel offer/stick to its own peace deal rather than just depend on military means, and for Palestine to do more to curb Hamas and PLO terrorism as a step to get negotiations restarted.

Finally, I'm all for a solution such as the National Census or the Geneva Accord.

A note about the Beslan Massacre

As a father I'm absolutely disgusted and depressed by this event. It's a testament to inhumanity and stupidity. I don't really understand how Chechens and their extremist muslim arab allies believe that this will help their quest for indipendence. It did nothing other than expose their ture face and rob them of any positive PR.

Just as a reminder, we've seen this before - the Maalot massacre in which Palestinian terrorists held hostage then murdered 21 high school children in Israel.

Contributions

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Articles that I've done minor work on:

Media Accuracy

News

Op-Eds

A Lebanese lesson] Ha'aretz, September 5, 2004

Other

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