|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Nathan Newman
|| Get the word out
|| Shmuel Katz
||
|| Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, which Israel occupied in 1967, were not
|| territories of a High Contracting Party. Judea and Samaria did
|| not belong to
|| Trans-Jordan nor did Gaza belong to Egypt. In the war of
|| Pan-Arab aggression
|| in 1948, Trans-Jordan had invaded Judea and Samaria, occupied
|| them and, in
|| blatant illegality, annexed them.
So what? Israel annexed west Jerusalem in 48 and the whole of it in 67, although it was clearly demarcated as a corpus separatum. The point is, UN resolution 181 or 303 are not a basis for peace. 242 is. You can't have peace by expulsing the Palestinians.
Newly-formed postcolonial states inevitably have border disputes. Israel, as the region's biggest power, has the capacity to resolve these disputes in a civilized manner, using Washington's money to smooth ruffled feathers. But it chooses instead to grab the money, the arms, the land, the water, and anything else it can grab, and damn the consequences.
Hakki