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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (268874)1/17/2006 1:00:09 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 1571826
 
I'm pretty sure you are asking in jest. :)

No, I am completely serious. 90% of the ME population does not want Israel (in its present form) to exist. Lets say they would like to have the land of Israel and its occupied territories to be one country (lets call it NewCo), with citizenship granted to Palestinian refugees and present day Israeli citizens, and each citizen given one vote. And they would like to have Jews, Christians and Muslims treated equally under the laws of NewCo.

This proposal, of course, implies "wiping Israel off the map" since NewCo is not a "Jewish homeland". It is a country where all religious and ethnic groups have equal rights and representation under the law, and no religious group would currently have a greater than 50% majority.

What is the appropriate method (in your or anyone else's opinion) for the 90% of the ME population to pursue this desire?

The UN is not an option - the US will veto any anti-Israel proposal.

The democratic process is not an option. Israelis are not going to let the desires of the 90% of the ME population count in their own decision making process.

Armed struggle by groups opposed to Israel is (presumably) not an option - non-ME people call them terrorists.

So, how should the majority of the ME population go about pursuing their preference for NewCo to Israel?

I'm asking you because you call Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups. They are armed expressions of the desires of 90% of the ME population. If Hamas' and Hezbollah's method of pursuing the above expressed goal (removal of Israel, replacing it with something acceptable to the majority of the ME population) are not acceptable to you, what in the world is?
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