You can always count on getting a good response from the ultra-nationalists on Free Republic. I am getting an earful, that's for sure. "Palestinian=terrorist." "Send them back to Jordan." Several have agreed that it would be a good thing if only they could lay waste to Israel's borders for 100 miles using some sort of nuclear device.
They are a sizeable and vocal minority in Israel, very opposed to the peace process, and I expect them to do everything they can to sabotage the peace process, just as Hamas, et al., will.
I am NOT saying that their tactics are similar. Just that there is a sizeable number of them. If you look at the breakdown on the Knesset, I don't know Israeli politics well enough to gauge accurately but NUP: 7 seats, NRP: 6 seats, Shinui: 15 seats out of 120, and who knows how many of Likud: 40 seats really wants all of the West Bank and Gaza badly enough to undermine the peace process. For many Israelis, giving even one inch of land to the Palestinians is one inch too many.
Benny Elon's plan is actually funny, at least to me. He thinks that Jordan should absorb the Palestinians and make them Jordanians. I realize some on this board agree (Hawk, for one) but it's not going to happen. Ariel Sharon is going to be the man to deliver, like it or not.
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I am presently reading a paper by Martin Indyk who suggests that Palestine needs a trusteeship. Methinks he has a point. The Israelis are not the proper party to help rehabilitate the Palestinians. Even if Palestine were a state, it would be a failed state from the get-go.
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