[Dean's World] Dave Price: Reversion

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Posted by Dave Price:
Reversion
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1201211296.shtml


   At [1]Best of The Web, James Taranto notes that with the collapse of
   the Gaza-Egypt barrier, pundits and Israeli officials are toying with
   the idea of simply ceding Gaza back to Egypt -- making them
   responsible for the Palestinians' welfare and liable for their attacks
   on Israel.

     Rather than forcing the Gazan Arabs to join with the West Bank
     Arabs into a state of "Palestine" that has never before existed and
     has few of the elements of a successful nation-state, why not let
     Gaza revert to its pre-1967 status as part of Egypt? Egypt, at
     least is a country with which Israel has a peace treaty and
     diplomatic relations, which is more than can be said for the Hamas
     terrorist organization that now controls Gaza.
     Were Gaza to become an Egyptian responsibility, Israel would no
     longer be reduced to complaining about arms smuggling across the
     Gaza-Egypt border. It could hold Egypt directly responsible for the
     rocket attacks on the Israeli city of Sderot, and America could use
     its $1.8 billion a year in aid to Egypt as leverage to demand the
     cessation of the attacks. If the plan of letting Gaza merge into
     Egypt works, it could be a model for allowing Jordan, another
     country with which Israel has a treaty of peace, to accept
     responsibility for parts of the West Bank. In the crisis along the
     Egypt-Gaza border could lie the seeds of a just resolution to the
     so-called Palestinian question.

   This is the nasty, seldom-mentioned lie at the heart of most
   discussion of the "Palestinian-Israeli conflict." It's not a conflict
   with just Israel, and it never was. Palestinians have been expelled
   from Jordan and Egypt, both of which states want to foist them off on
   Israel (of course, this was after their original plan of destroying
   Israel and giving the land to the Palestinians ran into some snags)
   while simultaneously claiming to support their "struggle" against
   "occupation" and condemning Israel for the very conditions they
   themselves have inflicted on the Palestinians.

References

   1. http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/