{"id":1265,"date":"2006-11-16T19:09:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-11-16T20:16:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T20:16:45","slug":"it_starts_with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"It Starts With A Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a look at Ali Eteraz’s<\/strike> Aziz Poonwalla’s<\/b> post<\/a> on Israel-Palestine.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting, and positive…but will it get any traction? I’m doubtful.<\/p>\n

And it isn’t as if peace is an intractable solution. In fact it is quite simple: resolution of the conflict requires genuine sacrifice by both parties. The ideal framework would be along the lines of the Taba accords and the King Abdullah proposal. It will require that the Palestinians abandon the right of return, and accept some form of financial recompense in its stead to only those displaced families whose property claims can be verified. It will require that Israel dismantle all settlements in the West Bank, and relocate the settlers. It will require that a administrative body with authority over joint issues such as water rights and transportation be established. It will require NATO security guarantees of Jerusalem as a open city, the capital of both nations. It will require peace through diplomacy with Syria, with Damascus granted economic trade rights, security guarantees, and teh return of the Golan Heights in return for total cessation of military and financial support for Hizbollah. It will require bilateral normalization of diplomatic relations with every Arab country. It woudl require Israel to eventually be invited to join the Arab League and begin to interact with its neighbors as a neighbor and member of the regional identity, not a Western satellite. It will require Arab nations to carry Israeli satellite television as part of their media feeds and absolute sanitzation of all anti-Semitic rhetoric in their educational systems.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As to the issue of the West Bank and Golan Heights; they were nominally held after ’67 to provide Israel with some defense in depth – some land on which to fight a land war.<\/p>\n

The military challenges to Israel no longer look much like columns of Syrian tanks. While I’m doubtful that the political changes Ali is discussing will happen – it’d be interesting to see what it would take to crack the door open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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