Posted on 04/24/2004 10:24:56 AM PDT by BurkesLaw
I've never been to Gaza, but I have mooched around the West Bank and, compared to such nascent nations as Slovenia or East Timor, it's all but impossible to detect evidence of any plausible nationalist movement. Everywhere you go, you see the glorification of the martyrdom movement and the Jew-killing movement, and evidently those are such a hit that Palestinian nationalism has withered in their wake, except insofar as when all the Jews are gone, what's left will by default be Palestinian.
Ariel Sharon has decided that one cannot negotiate with a void, a nullity -- and even sentimental European Yasserphiles might, in their more honest moments, acknowledge that the only way the Palestinians are ever going to get a state is if they're cut out of the process....
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bttt
OTOH, maybe he doesn't spend half his life posting on FR like I do, so he has more time.
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