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Reader comment on item: Next Steps in Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
in response to reader comment: Letter to Rep Gary L.Ackerman (D-NY)

Submitted by Blackspeare (United States), Feb 28, 2007 at 20:01

Dr. Brandstetter...

All your comments are quite thoughtful. But remember, Israel won the big war in 1967 and ruled the Middle East, albeit for a short time. The iron was hot and It was then that Israel should have annexed the West Bank and Gaza----the remaining Arabs were packed and ready to leave fearing "Israeli Hordes" and no doubt would have migrated to Jordan. If such had been the case the illegitimate Hashimite regime would have been long overthrown and a Palestinian state declared.

Unfortunately, an avowed socialist general by the name of Moshe Dayan thought the West Bank Arabs and Israelis could live in peace and virtually pursuaded the Arabs to stay givng us today Gaza and the West Bank imbroglios. Maybe the next war will see a different scenario.

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Congress--- Lord Help Us [65 words]Vince PApr 15, 2007 22:54
encouragement [10 words]Wanetta CombsApr 6, 2007 11:13
Dr Pipes Left Out The Victory Method [84 words]F DanteMar 16, 2007 14:09
↔ They will, but at what pretext? [57 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDMar 31, 2007 10:35
Israeli-Palestinian Peace WILL NOT HAPPEN [196 words]InfidelMar 4, 2007 16:18
↔ I AGREE [41 words]OliverApr 11, 2007 01:03
Silesia or Cilicia? [107 words]PeterMar 1, 2007 07:41
Letter to Rep Gary L.Ackerman (D-NY) [1748 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDFeb 28, 2007 17:51
↔ ⇒ Right ON [131 words]BlackspeareFeb 28, 2007 20:01
partition [243 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDFeb 27, 2007 11:42
↔ Yuval Brandstetter,You Are Absolutely Right! We must all wake up! [190 words]TTSMar 1, 2007 02:38
Testimony [14 words]AlanFeb 27, 2007 09:18
an aside on minneapolis jihadists [223 words]robert aFeb 27, 2007 02:57
next step in the peace process [50 words]jon purizhanskyFeb 26, 2007 19:53
↔ gaza is Iraq [158 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDMar 3, 2007 13:11
Pipes makes it clear [115 words]Vince DalyFeb 26, 2007 16:53
↔ I agree [36 words]DanFeb 28, 2007 11:18
What About Iran? [139 words]Roger McKinneyFeb 26, 2007 15:55
↔ Not backing their aspirations Roger but designing them [139 words]PeterFeb 28, 2007 10:03
Mecca agreement [172 words]Robert SolotFeb 26, 2007 09:13
There's the rub [137 words]Howard E. CookFeb 26, 2007 03:52
What a waste of time! [104 words]Noah WilkFeb 25, 2007 23:39
WOW ! That's what Ackerman said! WOW! [168 words]martin KesslerFeb 25, 2007 18:07
↔ So what else is new, and private post script to the Editor. [128 words]Martin KesslerFeb 26, 2007 01:14
↔ to martin kessler [27 words]jon purizhanskyFeb 26, 2007 22:55
↔ Selected comments from "Samson Blinded" by Obadian Shoher--as must reading [1041 words]martin kesslerApr 4, 2009 23:51
Palestinian commitment to two states [201 words]Gerry MandellFeb 25, 2007 13:27
↔ Two state solution - the response [235 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDMar 20, 2007 09:32
↔ the "peace process" needs a paradigm shift [3847 words]Ted BelmanMay 28, 2007 15:58
↔ quite a comment [159 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDMay 29, 2007 15:32
Might Makes Right [122 words]BlackspeareFeb 25, 2007 11:19
↔ Blackspeare is Correct - Israelis are not acting like Israelites [277 words]nabil shawarmaMar 4, 2007 11:42
↔ its the diaspora [231 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDMar 6, 2007 09:30
↔ PHYSICIAN , HEAL THYSELF - I respect your opinions but I disagree on your reason to mock the US [449 words]Nabil ShawarmaMar 19, 2007 08:41
↔ we are working on it [326 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDMar 20, 2007 09:17
↔ Re: Putting my fate in the hands of strangers - I will take them over Olmert and the Israeli-Left and Ha'aretz [266 words]Nabil ShawarmaMar 24, 2007 03:27
↔ Is Bush/Blair/Prodi a better alternative? [133 words]Yuval Brandstetter MDMar 29, 2007 13:51
↔ I agree with everything you said [24 words]NabilMar 29, 2007 17:19
↔ registration [82 words]Y Brandstetter MDMar 30, 2007 17:18

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