For better or worse, there is no chance of Palestinian capitulation either. If you leave people with absolutely no hope and nothing lose, you will get what you pay for. Sooner or later, someone will get hold of some of those missing Russian nukes, or cook up some airborne Ebola, and that will be it for Israel. ANd maybe the rest of us too, when a dying Israel uses its nuclear weapons all over the Middle East. I really do not think I am being too apocalyptic.
--jks
>From: Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: RE: zionism
>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:27:27 -0700
>
>>Unfortunately the pragmatism has been all on the Palestinian side.
>>They--the PLO, and most ordinary Palestinians--have abandoned their
>>claims to the land within the green line. They have reconciled
>>themselves to having a second class state that lacks true
>>sovereignty. Now it is time for the Israelis to do the pragmatic
>>thing, and pull entirely out of the West Bank and Gaza, taking the
>>settlements out when they go.
>
>Agreed. It is time. But if they won't?
>
>>There is absolutely no chance that they will do this. The pressure
>>is rather the reverse. Sharon is for the moment a moderating force,
>>holding out for merely the usual iron fist policies. Things look
>>very grim.
>>
>>--jks
>>
>
>As I said, this is not a time to ask for justice. This is a time to
>settle for peace...
>
>
>Brad DeLong
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