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To: Captain Kirk
CK,
I think you need to work on your reading comprehension. What MK Danon said is that if the Palestinians move towards unilaterally declaring a state and annexing land, and moving to expel Jews, Israel should :
" would in turn be free to halt aid to the Palestinians, annex the Jewish and uninhabited areas of the West Bank."

Nowhere does that say that Israel would annex the entire West Bank and expel Arabs.

Given that you can't read, I'm sure you also don't know history. It was the Likud that gave Egypt the Sinai in 1979. It was a Likud government under Netanyahu that gave Hebron and parts of the West Bank to Arafat. It was a Likud-Kadima government under Sharon that gave Gaza to the Palestinian Authority.

34 posted on 05/26/2011 2:28:43 PM PDT by rmlew (No Blood for Sarkozy's re-election and Union for the Mediterranean)
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To: rmlew
Reading comprehension? I said that the Likud favored two possible alternatives. It would EITHER expel the Palestinians entirely Or disfranchise them (as in the Dolan plan) and confine them to Balkanized Bantustans (my word in the original post). These Balkanized non-contiguous areas though not officially annexed wouldn't be self-governing or independent in any sense. The best comparions that come to mind are Slovakia (circa 1939) or perhaps U.S. Indian reservations (circa 1910). Please note that Dolan is a relative moderate compared to Avigdor Lieberman. Let him speak for himself (emphasis mine):

"Second, a United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood would give Israel an opportunity to rectify the mistake we made in 1967 by failing to annex all of the West Bank (as we did the eastern half of Jerusalem). We could then extend full Israeli jurisdiction to the Jewish communities and uninhabited lands of the West Bank.....These Palestinians would not have the option to become Israeli citizens, therefore averting the threat to the Jewish and democratic status of Israel by a growing Palestinian population."

You're right that Begin gave back the Sinai but that was because the Likud, aside from a few extremists, never regarded that land as part of Greater Israel. Begin if you remember never tired of waxing eloquent about Judea and Samaria NOT the Sinai.

41 posted on 05/26/2011 4:48:30 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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