Time: Mon Oct 13 07:12:04 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA09793; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:48:42 -0700 (MST) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA24721; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:48:07 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:47:19 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: SAFAN NO. 770. The Only Solution to the Arab/Israeli Conflict (fwd) >From: SafanNews@aol.com >Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:59:05 -0400 (EDT) >To: SafanNews@aol.com >Subject: SAFAN NO. 770. The Only Solution to the Arab/Israeli Conflict > > @@@@ > @ O O @ > @ ( > ) @ STOP ALL FEDERAL ABUSES NOW!!! > \ 0 / SAFAN Internet Newsletter, No. 770, Oct 13 1997 > / \ > * >THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE ARAB/ISRAELI CONFLICT >by Barry Chamish (chamish@netmedia.net.il) > >Three days ago a professor of mathematics phoned me from Germany. >He had been following my work on MSANews and wanted two colleagues >of his currently visiting Israel to meet with me. The next evening a German >professor visited me as part of his annual pilgrammage to seek a solution >to the conflict between Israel and the Arabs. He had obviously been >meeting with Palestinian intellectuals who handed him the usual line >about Israeli repression and injustices and prototypical Israeli leftists who > >represent about 5% of the country and undoubtedly confirmed everything >he had already heard. > >Accompanying him was a woman in her sixties, also looking most >intellectual. Her first question to me was what I thought of Shimon Peres? >I answered that he was the most deceitful politician ever to disgrace the >Jewish people. Needless to say, both academics were somewhat taken >by surprise. > >I decided to lay my cards on the table. "You have to understand what my >research concludes. There is not a hope of peace until the Oslo Accords >are ripped to shreds. I want them disposed of and tomorrow is too late. >Next, I want Israel to cancel forever any ties with Yasir Arafat and the >PLO. They are too drenched in innocent blood to ever be worthy diplo- >matic partners for any moral people." > >The professor was now befuddled to the point of wanting to leave. >"There must be a mistake. Andreas (his colleague who phoned me) said >you had interesting ideas about promoting peace. It sounds like you're >one of those people who want to throw all the Arabs out." > >"No," I replied, "I want to prevent that and if Oslo continues, the result >will be something similar; and that will cost us thousands of casualties >before the dust settles. Now I ask that you bear with me while I explain >where I'm coming from." > >I then offered an abridged autobiography along with a potted history of >the New World Order. I explained that I have mounted a one man >campaign against Israeli political corruption and I don't care where it's >coming from Left, Right or Religious. I elaborated on my belief that the >Israeli political leadership has been deeply corrupted and compromised >by organized evil from abroad. I added, it's the Israeli people who are >suffering from the wrongs of its marionette leaders. > >However, I added, the same is true of the other side. The leadership of >the PLO, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, they're all as bought, bribed and crimi- >nalized by the same folks who sit on the Council Of Foreign Relations, >Trilateral Commission, Bilberberger Group etc. These people seek >conflict, they pay for conflict, they arm conflict and they have placed >their puppets in power in the Middle East to guarantee conflict... For >conflict will lead to a change in the world status quo. People tired of >conflict will sacrifice their liberties for any solution that will promise >quiet, such as troops from a world army on their soil, or a dissolution of >their nations into a global government run by the above mentioned >organizations on behalf of many of the wealthiest financiers on the >planet. > >It was a tough sell but the professor said, "I have heard this theory >before. What does it have to do with reaching peace?" > >"Because, we Israelis have something in common with the Arabs. >We are both victims of the same tyrants. If a movement of journalists >and academics from both sides researched just how outsiders have >pitted us against each other, we might just be able to wake up our >peoples in time to come up with an eleventh hour solution. Such >research would inevitably lead to the conclusion that no peace is >possible unless the foreigners and the puppets are removed from our >midst. That means Israel's political system would have to start again >from point zero and the PLO would have to be replaced by honest >political parties whose leaders are not smeared in blood. Believe me, >I'll have no problem sweeping Israel's politicians into the closest dustbin >in exchange or not for the same thing on the other side." > >"But in the end," noted the professor, "you'll have different people still >negotiating disputed land for a peace. There is no alternative to the >Oslo approach." > >"What you are saying is just a failure of the imagination," I retorted. >"The Oslo philosophy guarantees, without any room for doubt, that the >region will explode. It has to be scrapped in favor of fresh approaches. >Once Jews and Arabs understand how Oslo was foisted on them, and >what the intended end result of it is, they will abandon the current peace >process in favor of something that may work." > >"The Palestinians will never give up their aspirations for a state with >Jerusalem as its capital," he insisted. "The PLO represent Arab >ambitions." > >"The PLO is an artificial organization representing what Arabs have >been manipulated to believe are their ambitions by outsiders who want >to keep them ignorant, poor and divided. Jerusalem was never an issue >to the Arabs until it was turned into one. You can argue that now it is >and the clock can't be turned back but I think it can be with a better offer. > >"This will surprise you and it sure has me," I continued, "but since I >began contributing to a Moslem news group, MSANews, I have received >many letters of support from Arabs who know what I'm getting at, who >despise the PLO and most of their own leaders for their corruption and >want honest leadership for their countries as much as I want for mine. >I have found commonality with some brave Arabs willing to challenge >their own rotten political systems." > >"And what can you propose to them that will actually lead to peace?" > >"Yom Kippur is in a couple of days," I answered. "I'll use the quiet to >contemplate a proposal." > >It is now the evening after Yom Kippur and here is what I came up with. > >MY PROPOSAL > >Background: > >Let their be no mistaking that I have few sympathies for Palestinian >intentions vis a vis my country Israel. However, I recognize that their >determination to establish a country on land I believe Jews have a far >better claim to will not cease unless a much superior alternative is >offered. > >The current land for peace approach is unviable. The position of Israel >on land coveted by the Palestinians is justifiably intractable. Simply, >there is not enough land for two peoples to share and that means not >enough land for a viable Palestinian state. > >Solution: > >Yet there is a way to create a Palestinian state that could work and >that is by expanding the Gaza Strip into the Sinai Peninsula. Here, >there is a vast expanse of barely populated land, only 70,000 people >spread over 36,000 square miles. If the Gaza Strip was stretched to El >Arish and then 150 miles down, a state encompassing 10,000 square >miles, almost exactly the area of Israel, could be established without >displacing one person. > >Underneath the soil of the northern Sinai is a huge reservoir of brackish >water. Before abandoning the area in 1979, Israel had established >successful farms utilizing salt-resistant crops, as it does today in the >Negev Desert. With additional irrigation from the Nile, the Sinai could >bloom. Cities could arise, ports could be built, parks established; all >fulfilling Palestinian aspirations for nationhood. > >The major stumbling block is Egypt. Never mind that the Sinai was >attached to Egypt by the British and is not historically part of the country, > >forget that the indigenous inhabitants are Bedouin, not Egyptian and >there is no point recalling that Egypt's occupation of Gaza until 1967 was >a prime cause o > >
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