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Thread #42181   Message #626184
Posted By: robomatic
11-Jan-02 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Is Arafat Irrelevant
Subject: RE: Is Arafat Irrelevant
I repeat what I said before Bill in NY occluded the space:

There IS a Palestinian State now in existence. It is called Jordan.

Setting aside an additional chunk of land in the West Bank with no access to the Med and scant and diminishing water resources and limiting the width of Israel to Rhode-Island dimensions is a recipe for future disaster.

There were Christian and Muslim Arabs living in Israel for years, since the beginning of Israel. All they had to do was become Israeli citizens and vote like everyone else. The Palestinians who are under occupation should be given the choice of doing the same or being relocated somewhere else, like JORDAN. Many thousands of Jews originally living in Middle Eastern and African countries have already made the move, losing everything they owned.

The Arab powers have cynically denied Palestinians the same options since 1948. It's time to break this issue open and get it done.