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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118581)11/4/2003 11:00:19 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You have a point. At various times in the past, those offers you list were on the table. They never came to anything, they remained just words and proposals, no actual "facts on the ground." But I'll grant the benefit of the doubt, and say those proposals were sincere at the time. And should have been accepted by the Palestinians.

But all of them are now off the table, with the present government. The extremists have won over the (relative) moderates: Hamas displaces Arafat, Likud replaces Labor. Hamas will make war till they get 100% of Palestine, and Sharon will make war till Israel gets 85-90% of Palestine (The Occupied Territories are about 20% of Palestine, and Sharon is willing to give about half of that, split up into several disconnected pieces, for a Palestinian "State").

So the statement you dispute, I'll concede it only applies to the Likud governments (present and past). Labor has been willing to do LandForPeace, and withdraw from some (by no means all) of the settlements.
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