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Politics : GENEVA ACCORD
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To: John Soileau who wrote (120)12/9/2003 10:39:57 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 190
 
What a bankrupt and juvenile sentiment. Adherence to third- grade concepts like that one will visit this Mideast impasse on our great great grandchildren.

By that measure, FDR's insistence on total victory in WWII was also "bankrupt and juvenile".

But FDR knew whom he was dealing with in Hitler and Tojo. You obviously don't know whom Israel is dealing with in Arafat, despite the disastrous results of giving Arafat land and power in Oslo. Blinking if the other guy wants peace is necessary. Blinking if the other guy wants you dead is suicidal.

So some has-beens in Geneva with a crackpot document have instantly put a mind-meld on a 30% plus-or-minus segment of Israeli society?

Be serious. Israel is at war. Do you think that FDR would have brushed off Hoover's private negotiations with Hitler as harmless & unable to affect events? Whatever the effect on Israeli society, the effect of using the international community to try to pressure Israel is already very cheering to the Palestinians, reassuring them one more time that it doesn't matter if they make stupid and evil decisions on the field, the international cavalry will ride to their rescue to make sure that they don't lose. Cf. Jordan 1970. Cf. Lebanon 1982.

And if it effects Israeli society the effect could be disastrous. Just think if Hoover had been peddling a negotiated end to the war in 1944, don't you think he could have swayed many Americans? Not that Hoover would have, of course. Hoover, unlike Beilin, understood the conception of an election.
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