Dore Gold: Israel's 1967 Borders Aren't Defensible

WSJ ^ | May 21, 2011 | Dore Gold

[Heuristic Hiker]

It's no secret that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas plans to lobby the U.N. General Assembly this September for a resolution that will predetermine the results of any Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on borders. He made clear in a New York Times op-ed this week that he will insist that member states recognize a Palestinian state on 1967 lines, meaning Israel's boundaries before the Six Day War.

Unfortunately, even President Barack Obama appears to have been influenced by this thinking. He asserted in a speech Thursday that Israel's future borders with a Palestinian state "should be based on the 1967 lines," a position he tried to offset by offering "mutually agreed land swaps." Mr. Abbas has said many times that any land swaps would be minuscule.

Remember that before the Six Day War, those lines in the West Bank only demarcated where five Arab armies were halted in their invasion of the nascent state of Israel 19 years earlier. Legally, they formed only an armistice line, not a recognized international border. No Palestinian state ever existed that could have claimed these prewar lines. Jordan occupied the West Bank after the Arab invasion, but its claim to sovereignty was not recognized by any U.N. members except Pakistan and the U.K. As Jordan's U.N. ambassador said before the war, the old armistice lines "did not fix boundaries." Thus the central thrust of Arab-Israeli diplomacy for more than 40 years was that Israel must negotiate an agreed border with its Arab neighbors.

[Heuristic Hiker]

Evan Sayet makes the point that for Liberals "Rational thought is bigoted. and the only way to elimate bigotry is to eliminate rational thought."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

That is a perfect description of Zero's latest Middle East address: it had zero rational thought.

Dore Gold presents a strong and rational case that Zero is el-wako and that what he is promoting about pre 1967 borders is beyond looney....unfortunately Zero's peanut of brain resides in a Liberal looney land where rational thought has no currency.

[gusopol3]

In a second term,Obama will make the pre-1848 border the basis of land swaps with Mexico for the Aztlan homeland.

[combat_boots]

You are giving away the plot!

[EQAndyBuzz]

Give gaza back to Egypt and wall it off. Then offer the rest of the Palis the option to move to gaza, move to Jordan, move to Lebanon or shut up and be grateful they even have jobs.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

So many folks don’t understand how tiny of a country Isreal is.

[Heuristic Hiker]

Barry’s small mind has had a grasp on it since he sat on his Mullah’s lap as a boy in Indonesia. He’s seen Israel as a blight on the House of Peace since then and a pimple to be squeezed.