Re: Doesn't this simply hi-Lite the fact, that in the islamic world, peace with Israel is totally unacceptable and that any effort to reconcile with Israel, undesirable?
Up to a point, yes. But unwillingness to respect the other side is an Israeli/Zionist feature as well --actually, it was the basic tenet to set up the so-called Jewish homeland in the first place! I've already expounded on other threads(*) my opinion that the Israeli-Arab conflict is but a repeat of the French-Algerian one, that is, it's a COLONIAL struggle. Stripped from its kibbutz romanticism, religious/biblical fantasies and Holocaust guilt-tripping, Israel, indeed, turns out to be the last, brutal, western experiment in colonialism.... Now, as I noted before, not all western colonies are doomed to end like French Algeria: Israelis have a choice between French Algeria and South Africa. But even if Israel were to meet the same fate as French Algeria --the coffin or the suitcase-- it wouldn't spell a genocide of its Jewish settlers. French Algeria's one million Pieds Noirs were not exterminated by FLN freedom fighters! They were allowed to pack up and resettle in metropolitan France. I'm sure the Bible belt's evangelicals would feel elated at the news of accomodating a million or two of God's chosen people, wouldn't they?
Gus
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