Actually, I have a plan, for Israel's security, that is much more realistic than yours.
Your plan:
1. keep taking Arab land,
2. keep killing them when they complain.
3. 5 million Jews are going to try to indefinitely maintain overwhelming military superiority over 300 million Arabs, and 1 billion Muslims.
4. When Iranians, and then Syrians and Egyptians and Saudis, and then Hamas and Hezbollah, all get nukes, then sooner or later Israelis and Arabs kill each other by the millions.
My plan:
1. Israel builds a Wall on the 1967 border. If defense from suicide bombers (rather than further colonization) is the reason for the Wall, this shorter and more defensible Wall is better.
2. Israel withdraws from all the tiny indefensible settlements, all the settlements built between and inside Arab populations, holding on to just the few large settlements (which contain most of the total settler population) adjacent to the 1967 borders. This conforms with the Taba and Geneva plans.
3. The Palestinians create whatever State they want, with whatever government they want, on the land that today has a majority Arab population. Neither Israel nor the U.S. get to dictate what form of government, or what leaders, the Palestinians have.
4. The Palestinians give up the Right of Return, and the 1.2M of them in Israel now, can move to the Palestinian State if they want to (or be moved, if they show disloyalty to Israel).
5. The Palestinian State can now negotiate as an equal with the Jewish State. The U.S. will be a truly fair and neutral referee, brokering a peace treaty, and many other issues, such as sharing scarce water resources.
6. Once peace treaties are signed with all neighbors, then Israel's security can be guaranteed, in the only permanent way possible, by becoming the 51st State in the U.S. This is the carrot Israel gets at the end of all the compromises and land-giving: permanent guarantee by the U.S. military, of the Jewish State. By themselves, 5 million Jews in Israel can never be secure. They need a Patron, they need to be part of a larger unit, to survive. But they'll never get that security, if they try to hold on to Ariel.
7. To conform to the U.S. Constitution, the State of Israel would have to make some changes: separation of Church and State, guarantees of minority rights, no religious tests for government subsidies, ending control of family law by the Jewish Orthodox fundamentalists.
Your plan leads to a second Holocaust. My plan leads to peace and security for Israel. |
