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Ive always said we should give the whole area to the Tibetans.
it would solve so many problems
like you want to see the Israelis and Palestinians agree on something?
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> From: Yardbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:34:07 -0300
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> Subject: [CTRL] Invite NATO to Israel/Palestine
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> A WAY OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST IMPASSE
> By Thomas Friedman
> The Middle East conflict has gotten so violent and depressing, you wonder how
> the two sides can ever find a way out. We need a new idea. I'd like to propose
> one - but first some background.
>
> If you listen to the Israeli left, the only way out of this stalemate is more
> talks with Yasir Arafat. I was a strong believer in the Oslo process, because
> Oslo was a necessary and worthwhile test of whether Israel could produce a
> Palestinian partner for a secure peace. It was a test the majority of Israelis
> wanted, it was a test that contributed mightily to the investment and
> prosperity Israel enjoyed in the 1990's, which helped absorb so many Russian
> immigrants, and it was a test that made possible the Israel-Jordan peace
> treaty, as well as Israeli diplomatic missions from Qatar to Morocco.
>
> It was also a test that Israeli leaders, from Yitzhak Rabin to Bibi Netanyahu
> to Ariel Sharon, felt was important enough for each to participate in
> land-for-peace trades with Mr. Arafat, because they each knew that there was
> no military solution and that any long-term peace had to involve Israel's
> ceding land in return for Mr. Arafat's providing security. Finally, it was a
> test needed to unite Israel: a majority of Israelis had to find out if there
> was an alternative to permanent life on the barricades.
>
> But at some point you have to say the test failed. That is what Camp David
> symbolized. Mr. Arafat was not willing to look his people in the eye and tell
> them that 95 percent was all they were going to get and they needed to make
> the best of it, nor was he willing to acknowledge a Jewish connection to
> Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Which is why I don't believe the left's argument
> that more negotiations now with Mr. Arafat will do the trick. Maybe Israel can
> still strike a mini-deal or a cease-fire with Mr. Arafat, but not a final
> peace.
>
> That's right, says the Israeli right, so what we need now is not more
> negotiations but more military pressure; now is the time to crush Mr. Arafat
> and his whole gang.
>
> No one can criticize Israel for retaliating in the harshest manner for suicide
> bombs in restaurants; no country in the world would behave otherwise. But the
> idea that there is a tipping point, where enough military pressure on the
> Palestinians will get them to say "uncle" and willingly accept some
> mini-mini-state in the West Bank, is utter fantasy. Five million Jews cannot
> sustain a military solution against five million Palestinians and 95 million
> Arabs.
>
> O.K., says the Israeli right, then just smash them and then put up a wall
> around Israel. Another fantasy. First of all, thanks to all the ideological
> Jewish settlements that Israel has set up in the West Bank and Gaza
> (recklessly cheered on by the American Jewish right), Israel now has a huge
> strategic-political problem.
>
> If Israel keeps all the settlements and the Arab areas around them,
> demographically it will become an apartheid state or a non-Jewish state. If it
> tries unilaterally to uproot some of the settlements, without any commitments
> from the Palestinians, it will trigger a Jewish-Jewish civil war. It will also
> provide a huge victory for Palestinian radicals - who will have gotten land
> for war. If Israel uprooted only some settlements and put up a wall, it would
> leave behind a chopped-up Palestinian mini-state that would be totally
> non-viable. It would be a seething cauldron, uncontrolled by Israel that could
> easily acquire heavier weapons from Iraq and become a strategic threat.
>
> In short, Oslo was a test that failed, but was aborted before it was too late.
> The settlements are a continuing, long-term threat to the entire Zionist
> enterprise. So what to do? Staying in the West Bank and Gaza will slowly
> destroy Israel from within, but just leaving and putting up a wall could
> destroy Israel from without.
>
> The only solution may be for Israel and the U.S. to invite NATO to occupy the
> West Bank and Gaza and set up a NATO-run Palestinian state, � la Kosovo and
> Bosnia. I'm serious. Israel can't stay in the West Bank and Gaza and remain a
> Jewish democracy; but it can't unilaterally withdraw, put up a wall and leave
> an uncontrolled Palestinian entity there - without creating a permanent threat
> to Israel's existence. Nor, for that matter, can Israel trust Mr. Arafat
> anymore to administer these areas properly. What is needed is for Israel to
> turn these areas over to NATO or a NATO- like force. The Palestinians can have
> their state - but no army - under NATO's watchful eye.
>
> It's a long shot, but it addresses the real problem, and a future column will
> explain how it might work. (The New York Times, 24 August 2001)
>
>
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