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Posted on 04/18/2005 10:11:07 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
The most vexatious aspect of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the refusal of any Arab nation to provide any help whatever in resolving it. By dint of wars declared upon it, the Israelis became the unwilling "occupiers" of land on which dwelt three million Arabs who came, in time, to be called Palestinians. The land, Gaza and the West Bank, and the people who lived on it previously had been part of Egypt and Jordan.
Anyone who has followed the long, torturous road to peace the Israelis sought from the Palestinians knows that, under the grip of Yasser Arafat, that goal was never going to be achieved. Now we are expected to believe that his longtime second in command, Mahmoud Abbas, will get Palestinians to abandon the destruction of Israel as their only goal in life. It is the worst kept secret in Palestine and Israel that Abbas has virtually no constituency or power to influence events and, in particular, Hamas.
The destruction of Israel has been the sine qua non of Arab excuses. All the problems endemic to Arab culture, society, economies, and governments are blamed on the presence of Israel. If Arab nations were to actually acknowledge the sovereignty of Israel, they would lose the one issue with which to divert Arabs from the primary reason--Islam--they remain impoverished and oppressed.
So, when you read that Hamas wants to participate in Palestinian parliament races or that Hezbollah wants to do the same in Lebanon, one must ask whether Radical Islam can sanction secular governments and the answer to that is no. Radical Islam does not permit for a separation of mosque and state.
The next question is whether ordinary Arabs will find ways around that? . . . .
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