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Was Israel a mistake?
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Was Israel a mistake?
Richard Cohen, Op Ed columnist for the Washington Post thinks so. Here are excerpts from his column of 18 July 2006.
"The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake….
"This is why the Israeli-Arab war, now transformed into the Israeli-Muslim war …. persists and widens. ….The underlying, subterranean hatred of the Jewish state in the Islamic world just keeps bubbling to the surface. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and some other Arab countries may condemn Hezbollah, but I doubt the proverbial man in their street shares that view.
"There is no point in condemning Hezbollah. Zealots are not amenable to reason. And there's not much point, either, in condemning Hamas. It is a fetid, anti-Semitic outfit whose organizing principle is hatred of Israel…."
See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-yn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071701154.html
Well, was Israel a mistake?
And has what was once an Israeli-Arab conflict morphed into, not merely an Israeli—Muslim conflict but a Muslim-Jewish conflict?
One issue that is often raised is the issue of Palestinian refugees. The UN defines a Palestinian refugee as:
"…persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict.
"….UNRWA's definition of a refugee also covers the descendants of persons who became refugees in 1948. The number of registered Palestine refugees has subsequently grown from 914,000 in 1950 to more than 4.4 million in 2005, and continues to rise…"
See:
http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/whois.html
To the best of my knowledge the passing on of refugee status to descendants in perpetuity is unique to Palestinians.
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What now?