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Title: | to Johnny Weintraub #18 | |||
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| Name: | zeev | | |||
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| City: | Beer-Sheva | State: | Israel | | |
| "Before 1967, when there were no `settlements`, were Israelis safe and secure?" (J. Weintraub to Esther #5) No, they were not. But then, Egypt and Jordan had not yet made their peace with the Jewish state, and none of our leaders would have acknowledged the very existence of a distinct Palestinian people. Time has passed. One never bathes twice in the same river, said an old very wise man. Today, we have Israeli ambassadors in Cairo and in Amman, and the current US Secretary of State has told us that, "The Palestinians deserve to live under better conditions than they are subjected to, and be free of the humiliation of occupation, in a state of their own." US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, quoted in "Rice: Palestinians should live free of `humiliation of occupation` ", The Associated Press, Haaretz Oct 12, 2006. www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773549.html As long as there are settlements, there will be occupation, no Palestinian state - and no peace for Israel. |
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