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To: tekboy who wrote (20022)	2/26/2002 3:33:52 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

a response to the Morris piece from a liberal Jewish law professor, who has himself become much more hawkish on Arab-Israeli stuff over the last few years. tb@myfriendsaresooodiffident.com "Interesting and eloquent, although nothing particularly new--even for Morris, who said this three months ago in Yediot Aharonot.... "I don't know whether Crown Prince Abdullah's offer is serious or not, but it is asinine to say, as [another guy we know] does, that the failure of the Israeli Cabinet to spring Arafat (without any guarantees that he will keep the PFLP folks in jail, by the way) will doom the initiative. If Abdullah is serious about it, an interim decision on Arafat (whom the Saudis know to be a complete liar), won't dissuade him; if Abdullah is not serious (as Safire suggested today, although I think overstated the case greatly), then who cares what the Israeli cabinet did? "...What Israel must do now is simultaneously tack leftward and rightward. It must tack leftward in the sense that it should put a public peace plan on the table that grants a Palestinian state and an end to the occupation--but without concessions on refugees or agreeing to pre-1967 in Jerusalem (although it must renew the proposal for a joint Israeli-Palestinian condominium on the Temple Mount). And it must tack rightward by responding to suicide bombings with MASSIVE bulldozing and evictions in Palestinian towns. It must, in other words, show the Palestinians and the Arab world that 1) it wants peace and accepts a Palestinian state; and 2) that is the Palestinians insist on two state for one people (i.e. moving the "refugees" back into Israel), that they will suffer another Naqba like they did in 1948. This isn't a preferred option, it isn't a desired option; and it isn't even a particularly good option. But it is the best option. "The central problem, as I see it, is that the Palestinians (or at least a substantial segment of them) have become convinced that time is on their side: that all they need to do is wait, continue the terrorism, and outbreed the Jews. Only if they are presented with overwhelming evidence that time is not on their side, that they cannot count on demography to win it for them, will they come back to the table." "Oh yes, and Arafat must be killed, too. Let the CIA do it."