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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (139659)7/9/2004 10:10:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I am saying that Israel could have divided the land more or less according to UN resolutions and settled Palestinians there. The Pals would be a self-autonomous region but Israel would have still controlled the entire territories

And just who would have ruled these autonomous territories, considering that the PLO and all the neighboring states had a policy of declaring anybody who worked with the Israelis 'traitors' and shooting them? You forget how much the Arab countries and the PLO have invested in the permanent continuation of the conflicts. Nor would the kind of autonomy you suggest been accepted at all at the UN. It would only be seen as unilateral concessions, which the Arabs always take as a sign of weakness. The Israelis did in fact try to cut these local deals - and one of the first orders of business for the Pals in the 1987 intifada was shooting 'collaborators' - they killed nearly 1000 of them.

What you suggest was impossible.
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