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| April 24, 2019: Land for what? |
| 2019-04-25 |
| [Jpost] The news article "PLO to discuss revoking recognition of Israel" (April 23) points out one of the key problems of the "peace process." The crux of the dispute between the Arabs and Israel is Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), to which both sides feel they have a strong historical and legal claim. While Israel has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to compromise and come to a fair and equitable agreement, the Arabs are adamant that they will not compromise on a single inch of "their" territory. They (the Arabs and much of the world) demand that Israel retreat fully to the narrow area within the 1948 ceasefire lines and admit thousands of people ‐ several generations of "refugees" and their descendants ‐ into the small area that would be left to Israel. In return, the Arabs claim they are prepared to recognize Israel and forswear violence. Is this a good deal for Israel? Whatever precious land Israel relinquishes is gone forever, but with the stroke of a pen ‐ for any pretext or claimed grievance whatsoever‐ the other side can "revoke" its recognition of Israel and resume violence ‐ be it stabbings, firebombs, rocks on motorists, incendiary devices, rockets, storming the border, etc., and Israel will be in a critically weakened state and worse strategic position to defend itself. As reflected in the results of the recent election, Israelis, including those on the Left, increasingly grasp the inherit imbalance and folly of the land-for-promises concept. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Israel should have built nice towns in the Sinai, move the Palestinians there, then given it away to Egypt. Now there is no answer except, govern yourself peacefully for a decade and we'll talk. Until they can manage that the Palestinians cannot be trusted. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-04-25 12:49 |
| #1 I've got a gun says the Israeli and I am sitting on it. You lose, Loser. Come and make me move. Fight like an Arab. There is a reason why you are a Loser. |
| Posted by: Neville Uninegum3862 2019-04-25 04:07 |