> I don't think anyone can say that _any_ event in history is
> "highly predictable" (so that events occur "with iron necessity toward
> inevitable results"). Does Brad have a model of history that predicts
> as well as, say, supply & demand? Please, Brad, show it to the world! Or
> is it simply a matter If I were to be as arrogant as Brad seems to be
> here, however, I could say that it was "highly predictable" that Oslo
> would fail _even if Said had supported it_ since a program of setting up
> Bantustans with little or no Israeli concessions would fail. There's a
> _structural antagonism_ between Israel colonial domination and
> expansionism vs. the Palestination status of being dominated and ripped off
> that would NOT have been solved by Oslo, even if Said had supported it.
If your claims were anything close to being true (I don't think it is), both parties had to have been here: http://mondediplo.com/focus/mideast/a3275
-- Luke