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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
The proposal to annex the West Bank to Jordon is not far-fetched, for it has been seen at that by Arabs for decades now.

I think it's the best solution. If we could get Jordan to agree. They're a poor country. No oil money. If we give them $$$ and they'll demand billions in foreign aid yearly, I think we can pull it off.

Gaza will have to get destroyed. And that means Hamas will have to be liquidated.

So Israel needs to tell PLO, it's time to make a deal. Otherwise, if Hamas take over the West Bank, the same thing is going to happen there just like it did in Gaza.

14 posted on 03/17/2024 8:18:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
--- "So Israel needs to tell PLO, it's time to make a deal. Otherwise, if Hamas take over the West Bank, the same thing is going to happen there just like it did in Gaza."

It is inteesting that Hamas is not such a welcome ally of the so-called Palestinian Authority, not so much Palestinian as Arab and not so much an authority as a money-grubbing whore.

This all seems wrapped in the larger problem for Islam, in the Huntington sense of a "clash of civilizations." It is a worldwide frame. Islam of the Hamas sort cannot actually cooperate long term with other strains of Islam, and certainly not with 'mainstream' Muslim governments in this era. Qatar, as an example, kind-of-sort-host the rich atop Hamas, but little Qatar wouldn't want nor allow all of Gaza's Hamas to move there. It would topple the kingdom. Just so in many places around the world, wherein Islam still cannot live so peaceably with "another" strain of Islam.

It will be interesting to watch this play out, but I for one would like to see radical Islam be contained by moderate Islam, in the Huntington sense of a "clash." Time will tell.

19 posted on 03/17/2024 8:39:43 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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