[lbo-talk] Re: Israel's right to exist.

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad asks where the people of Israel should go?
>
>As Justin remarked, you don't raise this question about the people 
>of Palestine...75% of whom had to go somewhere.....
>
>....I would support the U.S. offering citizenship to any Israeli 
>citizen who wished to leave Palestine. The usual 4 billion/year the 
>U.S. gives Israel could be used to repatriate Israelis wishing to 
>come to the U.S. and to pay some reparations to the Palestinians. 
>All Israeli "settlements" should be given to the Palestinians. If 
>there were Israelis who wished to remain in Palestine (other than in 
>the settlements), they should be able to remain, enjoying the same 
>political and economic rights as the Palestinian citizens of 
>Palestine.
>
>(By the way, in case anyone wonders, my father was Jewish (now dead) 
>and all his family currently lives in Israel.)
>
>Joanna
>

That would certainly be a good thing for the United States. It would 
probably be a good thing for the ex-Israelis (although they would 
hate it).

So is it now clear that this is the goal that the world left is working for?

Brad DeLong