Posted on 01/10/2006 9:17:48 AM PST by ScaniaBoy
Give the man a cigar!!!
:-)
Hey Egyptians: Schadenfreude Ping.
Any story about Israel (except the Prime Minister's stroke) gets pulled from "Breaking News" and usually from "Front Page News" as well. Get used to it.
Here, it seems, is an example of where disengagement is bearing a little fruit.
Actually, prior to 1948, the Palestinians identified themselves as Syrian, not Jordanian or Egyptian. Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was the Palestinian leader before Arafat (he was also Arafat's uncle) wanted "Palestine" returned to Syria, as the area had been ruled from Damascus for a time before the Turkish conquest.
> Eventually, Gaza will be re-absorbed by Egypt.
Israel would love that to happen. We've tried to give it back to them several times. Prime Minister Begin wanted Sadat to take it along with Sinai. The Egyptians wanted no part of it. The Egyptians aren't stupid.
So the bulldozed a fence between them and Syria and shot at Syrian guards? Makes sense to me. Maybe we should try this with Mexico every time we get angry at out own government.
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The key is to seal it off from Israel. You don't ask Egypt to take it, you just seal it off. You can already see Egypt eyeing it.
The same thing has to happen in the West Bank. Israel has to choose its line, which it is doing, and seal it. Cut off from Israeli markets and employment, the arab west bank has no choice but to look toward Amman.
Chaos in the territories has been useful to the arabs because Israel was trying to manage it. Once Israel gets out of the business of managing arabs, and very importantly seals the area off from Israel, that same chaos becomes a problem to the other arab states, and not Israel.
Its extremely important, though, that beyond sealing the areas off, any attack across the line be answered by moving the line, that every attack bring a cost to the arabs in territory. Killing the perps is not enough, because there is an inexhaustible supply of perps to take their place; you have to exact a price in territory.
The difference this time, though, is that Israel knows that she can't allow arabs to remain in Israeli territory. Any arabs who wind up on the Israeli side of the line, if the line is moved, must be compensated and expelled to the arab side of the line. There must be no future "occupation" of arabs; any land taken must be cleared and incorporated permanently. Compensate innocent landowners, but push them to the arab side of the line, always.
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