At 01:15 AM 5/6/02, you wrote: >Brad DeLong quoted Dick Armey ><snip> ><<III. Armey wants Sharon to annex the West Bank, but allow those >Palestinians who want to remain to remain under Israeli government--without >voting rights, without representation, et cetera.>> > >Ilana >*With* voting rights. Also with serving in army (or doing alternate service >- like religious girls) and with paying taxes. > ><snip> ><<MATTHEWS: Well, where do you put the Palestinian state, in Norway? Once >the Israelis take back the West Bank permanently and annex it, there's no >place else for the Palestinians to have a state. >ARMEY: No, no, that's not--that's not at all true. There are many Arab >nations that have many hundreds of thousands of acres of land and--and soil >and property and opportunity to create a >Palestinian state. >MATTHEWS: So you would transport--you would transport the Palestinians from >Palestine to somewhere else and call it their state? >ARMEY: I would be perfectly content to have a homeland, just as--most >of...>> > >Ilana >And he is absolutely right. A. Region called "Palestine" includes Jordan, >which population is about 70% "Palestinians" and which is much bigger than >Israel. Brad DeLong, may I ask if you can find Palestine region on map and >look how much of it takes Israel? >Thank you for telling me that there is somebody who *is* looking at the map. ><G> >I don't know what you do or do not know about history of our region - in >1948 when Arab countries attacked newly formed Israel, Arabs that lived in >the area were advised to leave it - only till Israel would be destroyed. >(You can find some of the documentation on the net). But Israel won. Thus >was created "Palestinian nation", it's representatives scattered in almost >every Arab country, living in refugee camps, not allowed to become citizens, >honed to be Arab countries' weapon against Israel. >Palestinian state? I am all for it. At the other side of the Jordan river - >plenty of place there *and* plenty of water.( West Bank is mostly desert >(not sands - the way "desert" defined in geography books.) I am grateful to >Dick Armey for understanding it and for telling it. > >Ilana from Israel
And what about the big question: Who gets Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, which the hard-liners on both sides insist only they should have exclusive possession of? -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
