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| Middle East |
| Sharon rules out pullback |
| 2002-06-10 |
| On Sunday, Sharon ruled out an Israeli pullback to the country's 1967 borders, the crucial element of a Saudi peace proposal endorsed by nearly all other Arab states and by the United States. "Israel will not return to the vulnerable 1967 armistice lines, re-divide Jerusalem or concede its right to defensible borders,'' Sharon wrote in a guest column in The New York Times. "Defensible borders'' were guaranteed by a U.N. Security Council resolution after the 1967 Six-Day War that also demanded that Israel withdraw from lands captured during that war. The Arabs interpret that to mean from all captured territory; Israel, which has returned the Sinai peninsula to Egypt and given autonomy to Palestinians in some areas, says that is not so. What's with this instinct for self-preservation? This is the Middle East we're talking about. You can't have peace if you insist on self-preservation. Even if you don't, you can't have peace. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |