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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: kumar who wrote (221397)2/27/2007 2:50:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
if they had a recognized country and had to manage their internal affairs themselves, things could be different.

Indeed, that's just thing that terrifies the Pal leaders. They might be expected to run their own country like a country. They might lose sympathy when they shell the neighbors across the international border.

Nothing is stopping them from declaring independence, you know. Arafat threatened to do it several times. Israel wouldn't dispute it. It's been clear since Oslo that the independent state of Palestine (the one next to Israel, not INSTEAD of Israel) is precisely what Israel and the West is trying to foist on the Palestinians, and the Palestinians want none of it.
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