----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: Re: Tragedy in Israel
> In a message dated 12/30/01 6:26:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << One of the things they want is a sovereign Palestinian state. Give it to > them. If the Palestinians can live in something they can call their own > country, they will no longer be living under Israeli oppression, which > means they have no oppressor to fight anymore (unless of course Israel then > promptly decides to invade Palestine). The Jews wanted a country for > themselves and got it; why not extend the same courtesy to the > Palestinians? They certainly have as much of a valid claim to the region as > the Jews have. >> > > Israel has offered it to them in 1999. In fact, after the last set of peace > talks with Clinton, information appeared in the US press (I'm too lazy to > find the URL, but will if you insist,) that the peace deal as offered by > Barak was pretty much everything the Palestinians had asked for in previous > talks. > > They didn't accept. Considering Arafat's track record, it now looks like he > was merely going through the motions and was uninterested in peace. > > The Arab countries around Israel have a track record (not once, not twice, > but THREE times) I would count it as 4: '48, '56, '67, '73. Dan M.
