After 1967, it should have been done before the UN could even organize for a Security Council resolution. Funny thing about Palis: They are fatalists. They believe in submitting to the inevitable will of Allah. On the other hand, long term, they believe that they are inevitable, and that one day the 12th Imam will reveal himself and wreak a mighty vengeance among the infidels, Jooos! will get dimed on by the rocks they hide behind, etc. When you make it clear to them that you are inevitable, they will be quite docile and malleable, and start noticing all those Koranic passages in Surahs five and 17 that speak of the return of the Jooos! to their land. When you start giving ground before them, however, they become convinced that their day has at last arrived. Begin giving back the Sinai not only allowed smuggling of weapons and terrorists into Ghaza. It convinced the Palis that we were not inevitable, and therefore that their day has come at last. It is extremely doable, however, especially with the Palis, so long as you push the right buttons and keep off the wrong ones. Starting in ‘78, we were pushing the wrong buttons. Starting tomorrow, if we push the right ones (accept us; we are the inevitable will of Allah, prophesied in the Koran, and we’ll kick your ass in but good if you mess with us), we can annex to our heart’s content. Gingrich is right now pushing those good buttons. Ehud has through blind idiocy accidentally also pushed a few as well with this statement. But next we have to absolutely crush Hamas, or it all means nothing.
During the Cold War, the Russians realized they couldn’t reward their top scientists with wealth, so they used a different technique, that also worked.
It began by impoverishing their scientists, and rewarding them for their work with basic necessities. A really good idea or invention might be worth an extra potato at meal time, or maybe an extra blanket to sleep under.
Israelis have a thousand, ten thousand joys in life, and they are willing to offer all of these to the Muslims in exchange for peace.
But there is only one tangible thing in life that the Muslims religiously want. It is the only way they can demonstrate that they are “good Muslims”. They want land. All land. Every centimeter of it. It must all become Muslim land. For a Muslim to lose “Muslim land” is a both a personal and religious shame. The least he can do is keep what land he has. To succeed he must get more.
And Muslims are very honest about this, if little else.
But it is the one thing Israel cannot give. All of its land. And this perplexes the Israelis, because they cannot believe that there is absolutely nothing the Muslims want beyond land. They don’t care if their children starve and die, if their lives are miserable and filthy, etc. They don’t care.
So this is the impasse. But back to Russia, the Israeli approach is the wrong approach. Instead of offering to give, what Israel must do is to take.
Israel creates a new policy. Every time Muslims attack us, we will take some of their land. Maybe not much, but that land will no longer be Muslim land, forever. And if they keep attacking us, they will lose more and more land, until they have no land left and are pushed out.
This is not an easy policy. Once the first sliver of land is taken, the Muslims will scream like a hot iron has been applied to the soles of their feet. They will scream and cry and curse and threaten. Even worse than the usual.
And the international community will say to Israel, “Why don’t you give them their little sliver of land back? It is a nothing.”
But Israel must be absolutely firm. Once the land is gone, it is gone forever. And once again the message goes out that the next time Israel is attack, Muslims will lose more land. Land for peace. Give us peace, or we’ll take your land.
Hitting home, the Muslims will have hysterics like they have never had before. And the international community will call Israel lots of names for being stubborn and “oppressive”, over a little patch of empty desert.
But if Israel ever, ever gives any land back, the Muslims will attack Israel with everything they’ve got.
Yet if Israel is persistent, then the Muslim leaders will forbid more attacks, for real, and if any radical tries it, they will kill him. Because it is their land at stake.
Yet even if Israel kicks out all the Muslims, they will never, ever shut up about getting back “their land”. But then again, they never shut up right now.