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Posted by bmtlines on Tue Jun 8 09:33:28 2010, in response to Re: Helen Thomas Retires, posted by trainsarefun on Mon Jun 7 23:35:05 2010. But the conquered peoples were offered citizenship. All Native Americans are citizens of the US. I don't think that would be a good solution for Israel given the demographics and projected population growth of the Arab population there.Lets not forget that the Native Americans are a minority group that will never again have the power that they had 200+ years ago. OTOH a large Arab population living within Israel (assuming annexation of the territories)that eventually becomes a majority will be a serious cause for concern. It also doesn't matter how prosperous you make a territory - national aspirations will always trump prosperity. Look at Yugoslavia - they were one of the better off communist countries but a civil war broke out once the police state evaporated. Israeli Arabs may be loyal (to some extent) but they are citizens. Maintaining a colonial style control will be much harder for the people to accept and for Israel to maintain. The only 2 options left for Israel are expulsion or granting independence. There is really no easy answer. At this point I am not even sure you can have one independent Palestine either (think East Pakistan and West Pakistan). Seems to me that Gaza and the West Bank are headed separate ways. Ideally the Palestinians should give up their claim to Jerusalem in exchange for visitation rights and accept a sovereign but demilitarized state on the West Bank. As for Gaza - I'd like to give it back to the Egyptians and let them administer it but I doubt that they would want it. Sadat knew what he was doing when he did not include Gaza in the Israeli withdrawal :) |
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