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CYCLE_OF_VIOLENCE

                                             December 10, 2006

   About the "cycle of violence" theory:

   One way of looking at the continued
   dispute between Israel and Palestine
   is that there's a "cycle of
   violence" -- each side sees itself
   as responding to a wrong inflicted
   by the other side.

      Two equal partners in a
      self-reinforcing knot.

   There's an objection to this, in
   that it ignores the possibility
   that one side might really be at
   fault, or perhaps "more at fault".


     For example, the Noam Chomsky
     take on the situation is that
     the fault for "sabotaging the              I used to think
     peace process" lies largely                that was an
     with Israel.                               "extreme" point
                                                of view.  I've
        Given this, then the                    since come to
        superficially reasonable                believe it's all
        cycle-of-violence point of              too plausible.
        view can actually be an
        impediment to actually
        understanding the problem.



                                  An application of
                                  Okrent's Law?
                                                         DUBIOUS_FLARE

                                  "The pursuit of balance can
                                  create imbalance because
                                  sometimes something is true."

                                          NEUTRAL_ADVOCATE


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