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Politics : The Arab-Israeli Solution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (1125)	4/6/2002 9:02:38 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2279

I would suggest a radical approach to the question "who is a Palestinian". One should apply the fair doctrine applied in no other country than our own good ally, Kuwait. A Palestinian is and Arab who can formally traces his root to "Palestine" through the male line to 1913. That is the test for citizenship in Kuwait (and it may also involve a secondary corollary, and ancestors (through the male line) lived there in continuum from that date, I am not sure if that is part of the Kuwaiti law). Under the first definition, I doubt that there are more than 1 to maybe 1.5 MM Palestinians (in 1913 there probably less than 250,000 Arabs west of the Jordan river. Now one would ask, why not apply the same philosophy to Jews in Israel? Very simple, the Israeli have earned a state recognized by the UN in 1948, and they chose to have a law of citizenship of their own. Now, if the Palestinians ever earn themselves a state, they may then (within the boundaries of their own state) promulgate any law they want, the Kuwaiti law, the US law (Birth in the country provide immediately for citizenship), the Belgian law (if you are born of "foreigners in Belgium, you have to wait until you are 20, and then serve in Belgian armed forces to earn citizenship), German law, which is similar to the US law, or even a "right od return law (simlar to the Israeli law), but that would be as is the case in Israel, return to within the then existing boundaries of that future Palestinian state. If anything else is accepted by the world community (where "right of return to some other's people land, even if it was previously their own land) as the new international law, beware, the world, Europe will be destabilized in a period of 10 years, as Germans claim back everything they lost in two world war, from Kaliningrad in Russia, to Breslau and Danzig in Poland, and even to Alsace Lorraine in France. The west bank was lost by the Arab in the 1967 war that was supposed to "throw the Jews into the sea", until those Jews in their magnanimity decide they want to help their neighbors to accomplish their national aspirations, they got very little choice. Terrorism seems to retard the Palestinian dream more and more, and will result in a smaller and smaller foot print in the future. The longer these settlements within the heart of their future state are there and growing, the more difficult it will be to force the people out. At the end, these settlements will be no different than the Arab villages within Israel, and these people will have to be granted Palestinians citizenships with voting rights. If the Palestinians move now, the problem" is barely 200,000, if they wait another 20 years, they will find close to a million Jews within their Palestinian state, as much as 20 to 25% of the population, and these Jews will have major influence on the affairs of such a state. Zeev