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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (16693)1/18/2002 5:26:10 AM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Israel offered all of Gaza and 95% of the West Bank. Arafat refused. OK. Now, Arafat knows that Israel intends to give AT LEAST all of Gaza and 95% of the West Bank. We all know that. Everyone knows that.

Now, Israel can't come back and offer less. It's an insult.

I completely disagree. After years of debate and armed struggle, Israel gradually moved from a minimal position to a maximum. To be honest, I was stunned that they made such a generous offer.

The PLO responded with a frame-up involving Sharon's visit to sacred ground, then used it as an excuse to launch an intifada, starring numerous suicide bombers.

That's the insult. A bloody and stupid insult.

Israel's stupidity was in not erasing Arafat then. That they still do not baffles me.

I think Israel would be perfectly justified to forgo world opinion and go back to the Horowitz position: tell Jordan to accomodate the Palestinians.

Over the next 20 years, gradually concede more in the offers. By then, Arafat will surely be dead and when they reach the 90% level, refuse to budge. Insist the other 5% is a penalty tax for making a war last 20 more years unnecessarily.

If the world is outraged, bring in SNL's Church Lady to do a 'superiority dance.'

I'm using overkill here to make this point: the PLO had been given the most generous compromise I can think of in modern history and their response was repugnant. Israel is thereby perfectly justified in offerring less with the understanding that they can wait till hell freezes over before Israel will ever again offer as much, and they'll never offer more.... the 95% should forever be the maximum now
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