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Title: | THE SCIENTIFIC PRELUDE TO AN ODE TO ANNAPOLIS | |||
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| Name: | Joseph E . post 1 | | |||
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| City: | Givatayim | State: | Israel | | |
| Here and there we read about what to expect from President Bush`s Middle East "vision": Increased terror with Katyusha rockets raining on Tel Aviv, a restricted military field of operation, becoming a political protectorate of the Quartet and a military protectorate of NATO, (annexation) Anschluss of Jordan to Greater Palestine, cutting off the Negev from the rest of Israel by a Gaza-West Bank corridor, Israeli-Arab irredentism, losing the mountain aquifer, orchestrated pressure of `refugees` on the Green Line, and a reduction of Israel`s international stature to `loser` status whose future is already past. No one, however, has investigated the internal implications of the two-state "vision" -- how will it affect us as a people and a society. Below are some chapter headings for further research. Let the economists calculate: if the expulsion of 10,000 people cost 10 million shekels, where will the 100 million shekels come from to expel another 100,000 victims? Add to this sum reparations to the Arabs of East Jerusalem, and another 200 million shekels to liquidate the settlement blocks so as to keep us within the Green Line. They must also ask how the traumatic collapse of the lives of 300,000 productive citizens and consumers will affect the economy. |
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