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Title: | Frank in Rosenheim - Israel`s dilemma | |||
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| Name: | Mark Lincoln | | |||
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| City: | Houston | State: | Texas | | |
| Frank, the Israeli dilemma is that it cannot collectively decide what to do. The Israeli right is adamant about taking over all of the West Bank. What it cannot figure out is how to get rid of the Palestinians. The Israeli left is totally impotent. There are many Israelis who would settle for peace within the 1967 borders, but lack the capability of overruling the right. Israel engaged in Conquest in 1967. Not because it wanted Conquest, but because the logic of military operations made the Jordan River a logical halting place. The cost of that conquest has been immense to Israel. Immense in cost, immense in social division, immense in blood and suffering. Now Israel is a nation which finds itself trapped by success and ideology, hostage to fanaticism, and incapable of deciding upon any course with a future. It cannot exterminate the Palestinians, or set them free. And, it cannot face the fact that there are only two ways out of it`s dilemma. |
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