“so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel”

True then, true now, Pali propaganda notwithstanding.

“Two time Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1974 – 77 and 1992 – 95) told French newspaper Le Monde in February, 1968: “I do not believe Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not have been enough to unleash an offense against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.”

General Mordechai Hod, Commander of the Israeli Air Force during the Six-Day War said in 1978: “Sixteen years of planning had gone into those initial eighty minutes. We lived with the plan, we slept on the plan, we ate the plan. Constantly we perfected it.”

General Haim Barlev, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief told Ma’ariv in April, 1972: “We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day war, and we had never thought of such a possibility.”

Other Israeli leaders and generals voiced the same sentiment that in June, 1967 Israel was under no threat, yet preemptively undertook a war of aggression falsely telling the world it had no other choice. It had a clear one. It could have chosen peace, but didn’t and never did earlier or since to the present because discretionary aggressive wars of choice serve Israeli interests as they do its US imperial partner.’

Like your fantasy about Israel giving up Gaza – the June war is a creation of Jewish right wing propaganda.

Lies.

Is that what they teach you in therapy Neo? To be a liar?

You are terribly mistaken – but that what you get for reading Daniel Pipes(the ‘inventor’ of the pathetic “steal more land for peace” abomination you call a ‘plan’).

When will you people start looking at what the the facts are instead of rubbishing them by claiming them to be some leftist ideological construct?

But then you support a fantasy that a withdrawal from a devasting war will make us worse off, so there you go…

When I was first using Google Earth, I rotated the globe around to look and zoom in on Israel. And it was Fauking Insane. Because there was a like pocking line that was consistent with the Israeli ‘wall’, and on the Israeli side it was green and ordered in squares, lots, and lines. On the Palestinian side, it looked like fracking Mad Max, all a shambles with this pukish orangish earthy color spread around all over. Talk about a bunch of savages. When you see someone that doesn’t take care of their homes and where they live, you know there’s something chaotically wrong with those people.

I did the same thing with Mexico you know, at the southern border. Totally fracking same difference.

and so King Hussein saw fit to do a little housecleaning–to the tune of approximately seven to eight thousand Palestinian dead–in September of 1970, eliminating the Palestinian presence there in order to preserve his own rule.

Hussein didn’t eliminate the Palestinian presence from Jordanian society; more than half of Jordan’s population today identifies itself as Palestinian. (Jordan is the one exception, an Arab country willing to grant citizenship to Palestinians.)

What Hussein did in September 1970 was to eliminate Palestinians from leadership roles in Jordanian society, particularly in the Jordanian military. (The PLO had infiltrated the Jordanian army to such a degree that a coup was dangerously likely.)

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When Israel withdrew completely from the Gaza Strip in 2005, this was, in many ways, a barometer of Palestinian intentions (just as the total withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 was). And the results were the same in both cases. Hizbullah found a flimsy pretext (the Shebaa farms, which even the UN agrees were never Lebanese) to continue terrorism; and the Gazans continue to fire Qassam rockets at Israeli towns, protesting an “occupation” that no longer exists for them.

Personally, I wish it were possible to seal off Gaza completely — no incoming cash, weapons, Israeli electricity or fuel, and so forth — and let them stew until the terror attacks from Gaza cease. But that would be utterly inhumane; Gaza doesn’t have anything like the infrastructure to be self-sufficient. (Heck, they haven’t even built decent sewers for themselves.)

A better idea — which I advanced at the time of the Gaza withdrawal, and is getting somewhat stale now — would be for Israel to announce, as of a particular date, that it will start taking back Gaza, a piece at a time — one square kilometer for each rocket or terrorist attack launched against Israel from Gaza. The Gaza Strip is 360 square kilometers in size; I suspect they’d get the point rather quickly.

(Heck, with the bloodshed going on there now, it’s not too farfetched that some small Gaza villages might clamor “us first, us first!”…)

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline

Further, I fear that Tel Aviv will be nuked before the Palestinians are successful in replacing hatred.

Yet I offer another idea — Cantonization. Use Switzerland as the model, and make Gaza one canton (or two?), with other cantons on the West Bank.
Who is the President of Switzerland (perhaps the most successful European country per capita)?
Who cares? Almost no power … position rotates.

The US could have, and probably should have, pushed cantonization in Iraq; and ex-Yugoslavia; and even today in Sudan AND Southern Sudan.

To the Editor:

The writer is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights.