Let me spell it : S-E-P-A-R-A-T-I-O-N

[arpad]

History knows lots of examples when separation worked. Even when it was bloody and painful.

But history knows no example when "corridors" or "international protectorate" or "UN peacekeeping forces" achieved anything by themselves but short pause before explosion. Neither it knows any capital divided between two states.

A fateful upstairs-downstairs cooperation between the unskilled Palestinian laborer and the moneyed Israeli employer, cooperation that seeds hate by mixing rich Israelis and poor Palestinians should be broken once and for long.

Separation by any cost - that must be our goal. And our Palestinian enemies should bear at least as much of that cost as we do. Because it was elected government of Palestinians that broke out of talks and started this war of terror. And is losing it now.

Comments

[wildernesscat.livejournal.com]

Amen to that, brother!

[visservoldemort.livejournal.com]

Indeed. But it is not enough to seperate, we must also protect our interests as well. There are some areas where we should never leave, areas that are essential to both the security of the state of Israel, and the heritage of the Jewish people. Leaving Palestinian population centers, while keeping important areas such as the Jordan Valley, the Jerusalem envelope and a sufficient broadening of the nation's all too small middle (in the form of the Kedumim-Ariel bloc of settlements in Samaria) is needed. I suspect we agree on this topic, though we have yet to speak. (I found your journal through a search of the people who have Jabotinsky in their interests) It is a shame that the repeated interference of outsiders in the region (i.e: the British) in the past have brought us to this sad situation.