The dangerous fantasy of peaceful Arab intent
This Seattle Times article is an absolute must read. Someone who gets published in the MSM finally gets it!Hat Tip: Steven Plaut
For nearly 40 years, academic Middle East experts and State Department inventors of quixotic "peace plans" have insisted that Israeli occupation of "Arab lands" causes Arab hatred and terror and is the "root cause" of the conflict; end the occupation, they have always said, and all will be well.Read the whole thing.
How, then, is it that, starting the very day after its withdrawal from Gaza last year and six years after its unilateral retreat from Lebanon, Israel is under attack from both those places?
Would it not be closer to the truth to say that terror is caused far less by Israeli military occupation than by the removal of that occupation?
Complete removal of Israeli forces and Jewish residents from an area achieves nothing except to invite greater terror and aggression from people who use every meter of land they control not to build their own state but to destroy an existing state.
This is why the idea — promoted by virtually every recent American (and Israeli) administration — of two sovereign entities, Jewish and Arab, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean is dangerous fantasy.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:53 AM
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This is why the withdrawal from Lebanon and then from Gaza was necessary from a brutally pragmatic point of view. It got rid of a strategically untenable salient, e.g. the myth in the media that Israel was responsible for everything bad that happened.
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