At 13:34 28-3-02 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:

> > > All it wanted was Palestine to stop attacking Israel and sign a peace
> > > treaty if Israel did this.
> >
> > Please do not insult my intelligence. You know just as well as I do that
> > things were not *that* simple. You know very well that the peace treaty
> > included terms that were unacceptable to the Palestinians.
> >
>
>The sticking point was the "right of return."  If Israel gave in on this, it
>would cease to exist as a state where Jews were safe.  Should Palestinians
>have the right to become citizens of Israel at will?  BTW, the present
>proposal has the "right of return" in it.  Do you think that Israel has to
>accept the right of Palestinains to make Israel an Arab state?

I think Israel has to accept the right of Palestinians to live in Israel. I 
now Israel finds that unacceptable, but if that is what it takes to obtain 
peace, the decision should be easy. Unless of course Israel would rather 
have war than allow Palestinians to live in Israel.


Jeroen

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