"The Arabs know our telephone number"

Submitted by Frank Adam (United Kingdom), May 12, 2010 at 06:02

When the Arabs not only want but need peace because their arrogantly aggressive imperialism has been given a deserved kicking, they come to direct talks as did Anwar Sadat and King Hussein and for that matter the Rhodes Armistice of 1949 which quickly moved from "proximity" to face to face talks.

Israeli governments should bat all non-sense about concessions and proximity talks with telling the Arab parties - and the US - that the Arabs can come to direct talks and peace anytime they retrieve their manners from teh gutter. For tha matter it would help if the powers moved their embassies to Jerusalem to rub in to the Arabs that Israel is a legitimate state and member of the UN tha the Arabs could have done business with anytime these six decades on the same basis as with other nations if they the Arabs had stopped insisting on undeservedly privileged and exceptional treatment.

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