Dear all,
A shocking op-ed by Emanuel Winston at the USA Today that calls for
Palestinian population transfer (See below):
A PLO state will only guarantee unending war, drawing in all
like-minded nations. The simple answer, instead, would be to
create a vast separation from Israel, resettling the
Palestinians in Jordan, where 80% of the population
already is Palestinian.
This is not the first time that calls for outright population
transfer were published in respectable US papers. On June 6, 2001,
The Washington Times published an outrageous piece in which columnist
Cal Thomas said: "Palestinian residents to Arab nations... Eviction is a
better avenue to stability. Will it happen? Probably not. Should it? Yes."
[ See http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/db/alerts/display_message.asp?mid=176 ]
Please make your voice heard about gracing immoral and illegal proposals
with respectibility as though they were just another opinion.
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02/21/2002 - Updated 10:26 PM ET
http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2002/02/22/ncoppf.htm
USA TODAY
No to Palestinian state
By Emanuel A. Winston
The nations think a new state of Palestine would solve all Mideast problems.
Not true. A Palestinian state would be the ultimate poison pill for Israel,
given the Palestinians' unbroken record of war, terrorism and broken peace
agreements.
Wherever Yasser Arafat has nested, he has stockpiled smuggled-in weapons for
a war to the death of the Jewish state ? the end he has pledged himself to
repeatedly and publicly, both before and after the 1993 Oslo agreement. And
he's doing it again.
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has dusted off the old formula:
recognition of Israel in exchange for a Palestinian state with East
Jerusalem as its capital and withdrawal to the 1967 armistice lines ? called
by some Israelis the "Auschwitz borders." This is the same Saudi Arabia that
has been funding Osama bin Laden and other anti-American and anti-Israel
terrorists for the past 40 years. Fourteen of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were
Saudis.
Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, like Syria and Iran, has taught
the children of several generations to hate Israel so much that when they
grow up they will commit ritual suicide for Islam and kill Jews. Arafat has
thus programmed the ongoing genocide of his own young people as well as
those of Israel.
Regrettably, there is no ready solution for deprogramming the Arab culture
that has taught its youth to hate and kill with such ferocity that nothing,
ncluding a state of their own, will change their minds or cure their
murderous behavior.
This clash of civilizations demonstrates radical Islam on the march: first
to eliminate Israel and then to dominate the hated West. Global terrorism is
driven by radical Islamists who find the economic, scientific and cultural
advances of the West unbearable and indigestible. They cannot and will not
take yes for an answer because they must win back the pride they lost and
the shame they suffered from having lost six wars to Israel, with unending
terrorism in between.
A PLO state will only guarantee unending war, drawing in all like-minded
nations. The simple answer, instead, would be to create a vast separation
from Israel, resettling the Palestinians in Jordan, where 80% of the
population already is Palestinian.
Emanuel A. Winston is a Middle East analyst and commentator.