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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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24 Aug 2005 03:42:18 AM |
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OT: Palestinians can play the Israeli game |
Palestinians can play the Israeli game
Parallel unilateralism can build self-rule without concessions
Ahmad Samih Khalidi
Wednesday August 24, 2005
The Guardian
Two profound assumptions underlie Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza.
The first is that Israel's overriding value is the preservation of its
Jewish character and majority. The second is that the conflict with the
Palestinians is not amenable to a final agreed resolution, now or in
the foreseeable future.
The net product is that Israel should unilaterally "disengage" from
areas of Palestinian population density and retrench behind a
demographic barrier (the wall). Withdrawal from Gaza represents a
retreat from no more than 6% of the territories occupied in 1967, but
it reduces the Palestinian "demographic threat" by about a third. Gaza
will now be enclosed in a triple fence, and with the completion of the
"separation wall" in the West Bank in mid-2006, Israel's 5 million or
so Jews will be insulated from the 3.8 million Palestinians in the
occupied territories - with tens of thousands of Arabs in East
Jerusalem suspended in a politico-legal limbo.
Ahmad Samih Khalidi
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/4fe6960a95107008
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