Zionism and Anti-Zionism

[Brad DeLong]

>>"The Palestinian Authority must reform itself at its base: all 
>>areas - security, economic, legal and social - and it must take 
>>responsibility over itself. We cannot have peace with a corrupted 
>>terrorist dictatorship."
>
>So, Israel's idea of a Palestinian state is one whose leadership and 
>structure they specify. That's not an independent state - it's 
>somewhere between a colony and a bantustan.
>
>Doug

You think Israel should turn over the West Bank to a corrupted 
terrorist dictatorship? To a corrupt dictatorship, yes--that was, 
IMHO, Clinton's and Rabin's plan: make Yasser Arafat King of the West 
Bank and make him responsible for controlling Hamas, because he would 
have something to lose if Hamas slipped its leash too often and wise 
peacemaker Rabin lost an election to Netanyahu or Sharon...

And surely from the Israeli standpoint the current situation is much 
better than a Palestinian state on the West Bank that launches daily 
"martyrdom operations" against bat mitzvahs. Israel has to see the 
Palestinian authority's definition of "peace" as an improvement over 
the current situation, doesn't it?...

Brad DeLong