Long-term Goals of the Palestinian Authority?

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Jul 16 13:41:24 PDT 2001



>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>> One might conclude from this that there is *nothing* that Rabin or
>> Barak could have offered--short of the abolition of Israel, and the
>> removal of the bulk of its population from the region--that would
>> satisfy the Palestinian Authority.
>.
>What would happen if you applied this type reasoning to Israel? Lieberman,
>Levy, and Ze'evi (who openly advocates "transfer" of all Arabs to Jordan)
>are all currently voting members of the cabinet....
>
>Seth

But none of them are routinely described as "pragmatists": Israeli "pragmatists" don't talk about how their long run goal is to expel all non-Jews from the area between the Nile and the Euphrates...

Brad DeLong



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