It should be obvious to anyone with half a brain by this time that
there are only three alternatives for peace in the that area:
1) The Palistinians can all leave and move to Jordan, which is
ethnically all the same people anyway. The Israelis made a very stupid
mistake to allow any of them to stay or come back anyway.
or
2) The Israelis can all leave, and maybe build a new state floating in
the sea.
or
3) Someone can develop a gaseous dispersal form of LSD and blitz the
whole area with it once a week for a year.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>On 24 Feb 2002, at 19:01, Jei wrote:
>
>>A few facts: The Palestinians are right. The Israeli
>>occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza is
>>illegal. When the occupation ends, peace follows. As long
>>as the occupation continues, so will the resistance.
>>
>
>Yes, the Palestinians are right, and the occupation is
>illegal. However, when the occupation ends, peace will *not*
>follow. The Palestinian demands are considerably greater
>than that.
>
>The palestinians are demanding a palestinian state in the
>west bank, including old jerusalem and the temple, and the
>right of palestinians evicted from what is now Israel to
>return and live under jewish rule.
>
>At camp david, the Israelis offered the Palestinians a
>"state" carved into little bantustans, divided by roads along
>which israelis could move freely, and palestinians would be
>subject to checkpoints, a state that could not trade freely
>with the outside world, or even with other parts of the
>"state" of Palestine, whose water was owned by Israel, and
>whose citizens would therefore have to live by crossing into
>Israel for day labor, like the blacks on South African
>bantustans.
>
>Now that was not a reasonable or realistic offer, indeed it
>was arrogant and criminal. But the Palestinian counter offer
>-- that they wanted the temple and right of return, was not
>reasonable or realistic either.
>
>If the Israelis were to unilaterally give the Palestinians a
>state, a real state, minus old jerusalem and the temple, a
>battle would soon ensue over the temple, and over the right
>of return.
>
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