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July 19, 2006
Goodbye Palestinian state
Things that make you go hmmmmm:
One of the implications of the current fighting is that a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is no longer strategically viable for Israel. Missiles with a 40 kilometer (24 mile) range can strike most Israeli population centers from launching sites within the West Bank. Similar missiles fired from sites in the Gaza Strip could hit most of the remaining Israeli centers. Missiles with a 200 kilometer (120 mile) range can strike all of Israel from launching sites in the Palestinian West Bank.Does that mean it's either occupation or transfer for the Palestinians? I guess Hizbullah and Hamas aren't really their friends, are they?The 40 kilometer missiles can be deployed and fired with no warning. The 200 kilometer missiles can be deployed and fired with only limited warning. The result is a viable Palestinian option to wage war on Israel via a missile siege that supplements the suicide bomber attacks. This also negates many of the security benefits Israel hoped to gain via withdrawal from Gaza and most of the West Bank and construction of barriers separating the two populations.
Hezbollah and evolving missile technology have just killed the two-state peace plan. There is now only room for one semi-strategically viable state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
RELATED: Intercepting and destroying rockets being smuggled into Lebanon from Syria.
Judith | 07/19/06 at 05:12 PM | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine
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Transfer, please.
Most of the Palestinian arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are "refugees" according to international law.
That being the case, this means that they are not in their permanent homes.
Why not resettle them in permanent homes in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria or elsewhere under Muslim hegemony? Why must these people who are in their temporary homes be settled in Israeli land west of the Jordan River?
It's time to revisit the Alon Plan, I think.
Piranha | July 19, 2006 11:54 PM
