"Horn, John" wrote:
>
> I don't know if it is safe to bring up this subject or not but I'm going to
> try anyway...
>
> In the news, the various Arab states are pushing the United States to push
> Israel to set a deadline for the creation of a Palestinian state. Israel is
> a bit reluctant to do that, to say the least. At least, until the
> Palestinian authority can show they can stop the suicide bombing and other
> attacks on Israeli civilians. To me this is fairly reasonable. But here's
> my suggestion, the rest of you can tell me where I'm wrong and/or crazy:
>
> Set a date for the creation of a Palestinian state: say, 2 years from
> tomorrow. For every suicide bombing or attack upon Israeli civilians, the
> date is pushed back by 6 months. For every civilian killed, the date is
> pushed back 1 year.
Um, one good bus bomb, and you've set it back to where today's children
will have children of their own. 1 year is excessive. The same
argument can be made for the 6 months. Maybe 1 month plus 1 week per
civilian death would be a little more reasonable.
> Obviously, this gives organizations like Hamas an incentive to step up their
> attacks. But they have plenty of incentive anyway. But if there are people
> within the Palestinian leadership who *really* want peace with Israel and
> *really* want a Palestinian state that doesn't include all of Israel, it
> would give them great incentive to put an immediate stop to the attacks.
>
> So, what do you think?
If you add an incentive to make the Palestinian state happen *sooner*
with the turning-in of bombing planners and the evidence exists that
those turned in were, in fact, planning bombings, maybe that would help
turn some of the other Palestinians against those who organize bombers.
It might not, though.
Julia
