A response to Ze'ev Raphael

Submitted by Sevile (United States), Apr 10, 2006 at 15:53

This is in response to Ze'ev's post of the 8th.
You must not have read or understand the article, the point of which was to suggest ways that the
Palestinians could be defeated. Look at this paragraph from it:

"I refrain from suggesting specific steps Israel should take...
Suffice to say that the Palestinian Arabs derive immense succor and strength from a worldwide
network of support from NGOs, editorialists, academics, and politicians;
that the manufactured Palestinian Arab "refugee" problem stands at the dank heart of the conflict,
and that the lack of international recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital festers.
These three issues are clearly priorities."

The idea presented is not military defeat, but political and diplomatic defeat.
The arena is not Israel but the entire world and particularly the developed nations.

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