The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71709   Message #1228692
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
19-Jul-04 - 12:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mideast: View From the Eye of the Storm
Subject: RE: BS: Mideast: View From the Eye of the Storm
"The State Of Israel shall have the right to exist within safe and secure borders."

How do you like these?

"Israel has no right attacking people beyond its borders."
"Israeli settlers have no right stealing other people's land."

I don't begrudge Israel safe and secure borders. But I think the Palestinians have as much right to safe and secure borders as the Israelis do. The two groups don't seem capable of sharing. Pehaps they need supervision.

You are probably not going to like this, but I'm not in love of the idea of there being a "Jewish" state. It seems to be a formula for turmoil. Especially when so many people, Jews, Christians and Muslims have a claim on that area. Maybe the world would be better off if the US went in there like they have in Iraq and forced the Christians Jews and Palestinians to work out their differences as they are trying to do with the Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq.

Maybe the UN should say, Israel, we tried the Jewish State experiment, it hasn't worked. Time to try something else.