Excellent comment, Ploni!

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Apr 1, 2009 at 17:48

Hi, Ploni Almoni !

I like your comment very much. You see things very clearly.

> Mr. Pipes writes:

This offers cause for hope; indeed, were the 20 percent of Palestinians who accept Israel expanded to 60 percent, the Arab-Israeli conflict would close down.

Actually you need something a lot stronger. You need 60 percent, say, who not only accept Israel, but are both willing and able to wage a civil war if necessary to suppress the other 40 percent of Palestinians who would continue the armed struggle to liberate all of Palestine, from the river to the sea. <

If such a civil war really took place, then those 40% would swell overnight due to the rapid influx of innumerable jihadists from all over the anti-Jewish Moslem world making the task of those 60% even harder or rather hopeless.

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