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A solution that has already failed
Reader comment on item: Solving the "Palestinian Problem" [with the No-State Solution]
Submitted by Michael Greengard (Israel), Jan 7, 2009 at 15:02
Your "solution" constituted the situation up until 1967. It led to wars in 1947-48, 1956, and 1967, punctuated by non-stop terrorism in between those wars. It would inevitably lead to another war with Israel in truncated borders (the late Abba Eban, hardly a devotee of greater Israel, called them "Auschwitz borders").
Nobody is going to sacrifice lives to protect Jews except Israel. It's a proven fact (see Lebanon, the UN in Sinai in 1967, etc.). ... The two alternatives are Israeli cities under rocket fire and Israeli control. Which will it be?
If you really want to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, move the Arabs in Judea and Samaria elsewhere. With their attitudes, it's definitely impossible as long as they are there.
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Daniel Pipes replies:
If one follows your logic, then what good will moving Arabs out of the West Bank do? The rockets will simply come from Jordan.
But your logic is faulty. The historical record shows that when the Israelis show the governments in Egypt, Jordan, and Syria that permitting hostilities from their territories will exact a high cost, those hostilities cease.
That is the key assumption behind my wanting to see the West Bank and Gaza under the control of relatively powerful states.
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| the G-word [60 words] | Ash | Oct 16, 2009 04:35 | 147610 | ||
| "genocide". [139 words] | kman | Oct 18, 2009 15:44 | 147610 | ||
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| 1 | Giving land to Jordan and Egypt will not solve the problem [209 words] | Gamaliel Isaac | Jan 8, 2009 16:41 | 147475 | |
| Look at the numbers [99 words] | TY | Jan 8, 2009 16:28 | 147473 | ||
| I think they "get it". The new fashion in world response to agression is - cower. [41 words] | kman | Jan 8, 2009 18:13 | 147473 | ||
| interesting numbers... [58 words] | jennifer solis | Jan 9, 2009 02:07 | 147473 | ||
| 1 | Plan of Action for Peace in the Middle East Already in Motion - Israel Wins. [619 words] | M. Tovey | Jan 8, 2009 12:48 | 147456 | |
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| 1 | The islamic re-writing of history. [179 words] | larry B. | Jan 24, 2009 11:29 | 147326 | |
| 1 | So should we send the Arabs in Palestine back to the Hijaz [302 words] | dhimmi no more | Jan 26, 2009 07:39 | 147326 | |
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| Right [14 words] | Don | Jan 15, 2009 15:07 | 147289 | ||
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| 1 | Nura, a new Hamas strategy [141 words] | Infidel | Jan 19, 2009 12:40 | 147289 | |
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| 2 | Nura, and her new strategy [399 words] | Infidel | Jan 21, 2009 21:19 | 147289 | |
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| 1 | Israel should be a land for Jews and Christians Only! Not one Single Muslim in the land - diametrically opposed! [48 words] | Alastair | Jan 11, 2009 05:18 | 147245 | |
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| Yes! Glory be to him! Maranatha! [194 words] | Mulla Sadra | Jan 20, 2009 17:17 | 147245 | ||
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