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Politics : Palestine, facts and history
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To: AmericanVoter who wrote (335)6/19/2002 11:12:47 PM
From: lorne   of 770
 
The blood of the innocents.
Posted: June 19, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern

" The president's proposal will apparently be based on the widely held assumption that what the Palestinians lack, and urgently need, is a state to call their own. If they get their own country, so the popular wisdom goes, they will settle down and stop blowing-up Israeli buses, restaurants, Passover meals, etc. All Israel has to do is withdraw from the territory it captured from Jordan and Egypt in 1967, and all will be well.

This was exactly the thinking that formed the bedrock of the shattered Oslo process. Indeed in fulfillment of that process, Israel years ago turned over nearly 40 percent of Judea and Samaria to Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority – an area encompassing over 90 percent of the Palestinians living in those disputed zones. More than 80 percent of the Gaza Strip was also delivered to Arafat's full and direct control in 1994. In effect, the Palestinian leader has had a state – albeit without all of the trappings of statehood – since the mid-1990s.

And what did the PLO chairman do with his quasi Palestinian state-let? He allowed it to become a terrorist haven of horrific proportions. His various "intelligence" agencies and 35,000 or so paramilitary police force did precious little to quash Hamas militants and others violently opposed to the Oslo accords. What has changed in recent months to make George Bush think that a Silly-Puttied Oslo rehash will lead to a different result now?

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