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'Rockets on Israel' |
Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 01:45 PM
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IF YOUR COMMUNITY WAS BEING ROCKETED BY A NEIGHBOURING, ALTHOUGH FOREIGN COMMUNITY, WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT YOUR GOVERNMENT TO DO?
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If I were a Palestinian, I might retort: If you had aneighbouring people seizing your lands and homes, destroying your trees and crops and houses, roughing up your people, building barriers to cut off your villages from your lands and you were greatly outnumbered, might you not resort to using weapons that could be fired from some distance?
But look, this becomes a chicken-or-egg argument. Everyone would agree that Israel is the more "advanced," organized, disciplined - if you will, "civilized"- of the two entities: why can it not absolutely remove the settlers and turn over the West Bank and East Jerusalem and thus undercut any excuse the Palestinians might have to fire rockets? Promise to turn over the settlements (with their houses and infrastructure intact) in return for the Palestinians giving up their claim for "the right to return." Turn the Mount and very centre of Jerusalem into a sort of international zone. Agree to a fairly wide corridor between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Sooner or later this is probably going to happen. Why not now?
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