07-18-2003, 01:36 AM
Here's the thing: Let's stipulate that Israel is completely in the right and all of the surrounding Arab nations are agressors. What solution for a lasting peace would come from that? Should we give all of the Middle East to Israel and send the Arabs to Antarctica? Short of that, our stipulation does not lead to any workable solution to the problem. You will not be able to convince the Palestinians, for example, that they are agressors and that moving a few miles further away is the morally right thing to do.
Of course, whether there is any truth to our assumption or not, this may very well be a problem without a solution. But if there is any solution (which doesn't involve eliminating one side or the other), it probably does not involve trying to establish one side or the other as being "right".
Of course, whether there is any truth to our assumption or not, this may very well be a problem without a solution. But if there is any solution (which doesn't involve eliminating one side or the other), it probably does not involve trying to establish one side or the other as being "right".