Re: Tough lessons for Israeli armour

On Jan 30, 10:49 am, WJ...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Even tougher lessons for Israel's politicians. Don't start something
when you do not have an exit strategy. This is what also will be the
case years hence when it will become clear that Israel kept the West
Bank and Gaza with no clear exit strategy and built settlments also
with no clear long term plan as to the political problems that
result. <

Well, forty years ago, after the 1967 war, Israel immediately offered
to return all the territories, except maybe east Jerusalem, if they
got a "telephone call" from the Arabs offering to talk peace. But
instead of the anticipated phone call, they got a message from the
Arab League summit in Khartoum reading: "No recognition; No
negotiations; No peace." And in the following few years, despite the
fact that except for a few hundred "setters" around Hebron, there was
no settlement in Gaza or the West Bank. Those only began in the
mid-70s, and especially when Begin came to office in 1977. So despite
next to no settlements, the Arabs let a whole decade go by, except for
Sadat, who was condemned and finally assassinated for making peace
with Israel, but only after making and losing yet another war in
'73. .

Then Sharon began settlement building in earnest, and it wasn't until
1988, when so much land in the West Bank and Gaza was disappearing
under the push of Jewish settlement, that Arafat finally began
reluctantly the idea of recognizing ISrael and accepting a two state
solution. It can be argued, that had there been no settlement, there
would be no impetus for some of the Pals, at least, to think about
recognizing Israel and accepting a partition if for no other reason
than to keep something before it was all gone. So I believe settlement
was very much a part of a strategy to either force the Arabs to the
negotiating table, or risk losing all that was left.

Politicians worldwide can usually only think to the next
election or two but have little in mind with the long term
consequences of what they preach much less implement as 'policies'.
As for racist bigots like yourself - who openly posts that you
consider Europe's Jews to be a 'foreign body' in Europe and that you
consider it to have been only 'natural' to remove (read Holocaust
killings of Jews by the millions) your attempt at stirring up strife
between Jews and non-Jews are also bound to fail because few people
share your bigotry - eventually there will either be two viable states
or a single one with Jews and non-Jews living together.
[WJ20K]
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