Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: B-Chan
Of all the real Camel Manure about this Road Map, your view, which is prevalent here among those who are more or less supportive of Israel but refuse to acknowledge the damage President Bush is doing, is the absolute dumbest.

It's like saying that the police forces would be better able to handle the Crips and the Bloods if those were independent nations.

Suppose there is an independent Palestinian state. Suppose bombs are going off all over Israel. Do you think the Palestinian government will claim the bombers as their own? They will disavow them. But Israel would be unable to cross an international boundary to pursue. If at long last Israel has no choice, it will be condemned for violating the sovereign territory of another country. That has all sorts of international ramifications. The US may be bound by UN treaties to treat Israel as an aggressor with the ramifications that follow such declaration.. The independent Palestinian state could insist her allies come to her defense.

Use your imagination to realize where it will all lead.

On the other hand, you may believe that if the Palestinians get some land, they will be satisfied and peace will break out.
9 posted on 06/05/2003 7:17:07 AM PDT by Courier
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: Courier
Of all the real Camel Manure about this Road Map, your view, which is prevalent here among those who are more or less supportive of Israel but refuse to acknowledge the damage President Bush is doing, is the absolute dumbest.

It's like saying that the police forces would be better able to handle the Crips and the Bloods if those were independent nations.

You make my point for me. Of course the LAPD would not be better able to better handle the Crips and the Bloods if those were independent nations. If the Crips and the Bloods were independent nations, the LAPD would not be involved; handling the Crips and the Bloods would become the job of the United States military.

Suppose there is an independent Palestinian state. Suppose bombs are going off all over Israel. Do you think the Palestinian government will claim the bombers as their own?

Of course not. But the evidence will be there, and the IDF will presumably be fully justified in attacking their bases of operation within Palestine using military force instead of the piecemeal police actions we see now.

They will disavow them. But Israel would be unable to cross an international boundary to pursue.

Not true. Instead of a terrorist (criminal) action, these bombings would be regarded as pre-emptive military attacks, thus justifying a military response.

If at long last Israel has no choice, it will be condemned for violating the sovereign territory of another country. That has all sorts of international ramifications.

Yes, but those ramification will work both ways. The government of Palestine could also be condemned for using special forces to attack the sovereign territory of another country.

The US may be bound by UN treaties to treat Israel as an aggressor with the ramifications that follow such declaration. The independent Palestinian state could insist her allies come to her defense.

I don't think they'll have any real allies. By then, Iraq will be bristling with U.S. bases -- it will become (as intended) the "Japan of the Middle East". No one is going to aid the Pallies with a U.S.-occupied Iraq aimed at the back of their heads.

Use your imagination to realize where it will all lead.

In the end, the only way peace will come to the Middle East is when Western, Judeo-Christian culture overcomes Islamic culture and makes the idea of one nation invading another as unthinkable as the idea of Denmark invading Holland.

On the other hand, you may believe that if the Palestinians get some land, they will be satisfied and peace will break out.

I don't. I think the Palestinians are an ungovernable, uncivilized rabble that has been thrown out of every country in the region (which is why they are in territory that ought to be controlled by Israel now.) I think that a PLO-run gangster state will be created, will end up fighting a real war with Israel, and will be destroyed. The "west bank" and Gaza will be annexed by Israel, resettled by Jews, and the surviving Palestinians will be deported to Jordan at gunpoint, with the threat of nuclear war on any state that tries to send them back. The Palestinians are an Arab problem; let the Arabs deal with them.

10 posted on 06/05/2003 9:10:59 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson