Assuming that you are indeed correct (and the current Republican
administrations actions seem to indicate that the experts disagree with you),
then Israel has several options.
For example they could just *dictate* a land-for-peace deal and enforce
security at their borders. Eg. *ALL* Palestinian nationals are unwelcome in
Israel. Israeli Arabs who want to visit family can go via Egypt or
Jordan...if the borders are open.
Alternatively, Israel could *claim* that since the Palestinian savages are
evidently unable to govern themselves sufficiently to arogate external
coercive force to the monopoly of state-of-Palestine-that-does-not-exist then
Israel is _obviously_ fully justified in re-occupying critical territories
and and unilateraly redefining the scope and territory of the PA.
(This would be preparatory to the resevation or bantustanization of the
PA...Netanyahu's plan according to some memoirs he wrote. Note that
Reservation is a nice preparatory step if one wants to engage in ethnic
cleansing of these later-day Philistines; as dictated by Biblical example and
holy law, of course.)
Fortunately, the claim that the Palestinans have no central body competent to
engage in land-for-peace negotiations because the Palestinian activists are
just factions of terrorist cliques and their various supporters of various
degrees of fanaticsm *does not need to be true*. The current Israeli regime
is in an excellent postion to characterize the situation thusly, and by PR
and mobilization of conservative Christian and Jewish lobbies in the US,
*impose* the questionable view of Arabs (in this case Palestinians) as
fundamentally fanatical, factionalized, terrorists who are incapable of
collective self-control.
It is really very ironic and amusing when you think about it...unless you
happen to be Arab.
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 15:04, you wrote:
> That somebody probably doesn't exist right now. That being the case, what
> should Israel do? Open it's borders and say, "Come on in and murder me?"
> You can't make peace with a contentious faction of terrorist cliques, and
> that's all the Palestinians have right now.
>
> Marvin Long
> Austin, Texas
