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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (4244)	5/12/2002 8:14:27 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

You forgot Biaffra, where a holocaust of proportion quite similar to that inflicted on the European Jewry was perpetrated, but as the French President Mitterand said to his generals relative to the genocide occurring (with his support) in Rwanda, "no one will notice with these people". An old Jewish Rabbi once said, "If you don't blow your own horn, who will?" The Jews, after "taking it" for 2000 years, simply said "Never again" and learned to blow their horn. Many other oppressed minorities simply have not learned that lesson yet. The Palestinians to their credit, have learned to blow their own horn, thus the world is applying appropriate pressure. It helps of course that their "brethern" in the Arab world are standing on the western world's oil jugular. What I do not like you doing is essentially "equating" Sharon and Arafat. They are quite different, Sharon is an honest soldier, meticulous in avoiding casualties, certainly of his troops, but as he proved during the 1973 campaign, the opposition's troops as well. There was nothing to stop him from decimating the whole 3rd Egyptian army, he just did not think that there was any strategic goal to be achieved by the senseless elimination of that fighting force, and chose to neutralize them without actually killing them. he should be lauded instead of being tarnished as a "war monger". He is doing what he was democratically elected to do. Stop the senseless murder of Jews in Israel and find a solution to the Palestinian national aspirations which in 10 years will not force on the middle east another bloody war. How about the following "three steps" solution? First, determine who out of those 3 MM (maybe 4.5 MM if you include people from outside the disputed territories) had their ancestors, through the uninterrupted Father line, was living in the area prior to 1913 (I am choosing this date since it is the test for citizenship in other Arab countries, like Kuwait). Step 2, buy from Egypt a strip of the Sinai adjacent to the Gaza strip, maybe be some 50 km deep and 100 km long (that would be almost equal with the Gaza strip to the area of Israel, and leave Egypt with a bunch of empty land between the Suez and that entity) to be repopulated (one could make out of that area a fantastic Middle eastern Singapore or Hong-Kong if one only wished, remember, 50 years ago, Hong-Kong was nothing but a huge refugee camp, without that stupid UN perpetuating that status). Technology can be made available to provide for desalination of sea waters for that population. Step 1 should reduce the problem of people with real "connection to the land" to maybe 1 MM. These can become Israeli citizen, after swearing allegiance, just as the current million Israeli Arabs are, or chose to emigrate to the new "promised land". The others, those that do not have a "connection to the land" (like the Egyptian, Arafat), , can freely chose (and strong financial incentives should be provided, cheaper than war, always) to move to the "promised land", emigrate to other empty Arab lands (less incentives), or other alternatives (no incentives). Refugees now residing, or born in other Arab lands should be absorbed where they are (just as Arab Jewish refugees were absorbed in Israel). It is quite possible that then that new "Promised Land together with Gaza will provide for a contiguous area where they can exercise "National Aspirations". There quite a number of precedents (without buying the Land from Egypt) of massive population exchanges or movements that were carried out in the last century, for instance between Turkey and Greece, between Pakistan and India (some 2 MM Sikhs), and of course the "Russianization" of Eastern Poland and Eastern Prussia in Europe. Just a thought. I think that the price tab for such a "venture" would be less than $50 B, that is what it cost us annually to "protect" the life line of oil from the middle east, but frankly, I think that if that is spread over ten/twenty years, it can be easily shouldered by Israel, the oil rich Arab nations , Europe and the US. Zeev