Israel's right to exist...

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

At 2:23 pm -0700 17/5/02, joanna bujes wrote:
>I was musing over a solution to the Palestine problem last night and 
>caught myself wandering what would happen if the U.S. offered every 
>Israeli citizen (who emigrated to the U.S., full citizenship) and 
>subsidized their move. This would be expensive, but not much more so 
>than the billions we pour in every year. Those who remain in Israel 
>would need to become plain citizens of a secular Palestinian state 
>which included both Palestinians and Jews, with full-right of return 
>for the Palestinians and with reparations paid to them. Again, 
>expensive, but not more so than the billions we're now pouring in.

Well, if we are going to think outside the box, I think a better 
option is for Palestinians to advance a demand: Israeli citizenship 
or Palestinian statehood.