Giving land to Jordan and Egypt will not solve the problem

Submitted by Gamaliel Isaac (United States), Jan 8, 2009 at 16:41

Wasn't Jordan and Egypt there before the 6 day war? Is Daniel Pipes not aware of the rhetoric emanating from Egypt such as the recent statement of Egyptian cleric Higazi that:

"We say to them that while our martyrs celebrate in Paradise,
your dead find themselves in the Hellfire. We say to you: Dispatch
those sons of apes and pigs to the hellfire, on the wings of the
Qassam rockets... "The [Jews], who are as smooth as a viper,
and who lick their lips as [does] a speckled snake, will never live
with us in peace and harmony. They deserve to be killed. They
deserve to die," he states. "They are the ones at whom the Qassam
rockets should be fired. You should not care if you hit a man, a
woman, or a child. Just like they killed your children – kill their
children. Just like they killed your women – kill their women. Just
like they destroyed your mosques – destroy their places of worship.
Destroy ... everything over there."

It boggles the mind to think that Daniel Pipes of all people would advocate such an enemy taking over Gaza as a way to bring peace. The only way to bring peace is through occupation and denazification.

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