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To: michael97123 who wrote (1698)	6/13/2007 12:40:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

Israel didnt have to return WB, they should have just allowed Jordan to come back in rather than attempt to control (even for their own good) hundreds of thousands of arabs. What would Hussein have done if israel just overlooked his participation in the war and just left the WB and EJ alone? Was there any feasible way for israel to liberate only the Western Wall area and not the rest of EJ? No, because the Jordanians first withdrew, then collapsed. The Israelis would have had to leave a large no-man's zone under nobody's control. That's rarely a good idea. As for all this revisionist thinking about how the Israelis "should" have done this or that, may I point out that if Jordan had retained control of the West Bank, the Arab attack in th 1973 war might have succeeded in cutting Israel in two, with massive casualties? The speculation is based on false assumptions of Israel's underlying security. I notice the speculations never seem to say that the Arabs shouldn't have launched wars in 1967 or 1973 or that they should have accepted land for peace at Khartoum in 1967.