Middle East Focus: Middle East Doublespeak of George F Will, Pitfalls of Peace and Apartheid……….

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Middle East Doublespeak of George F Will, Pitfalls of Peace and Apartheid……….

“JERUSALEM — Immersion in this region's politics can convince those immersed that history is cyclical rather than linear — that it is not one thing after another but the same thing over and over. This passes for good news because things that do change, such as weapons, often make matters worse. A profound change, however, is this: Talk about the crisis between Israel and "the Arab world" is anachronistic. Israel has treaties with two Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan, and Israel's most lethal enemy is Iran, which is not an Arab state. It and another non-Arab nation, Turkey, are eclipsing the Arab world, where 60% of the population of 300 million is under 25, and 26% of that cohort is unemployed. The prerequisites for Arab progress — freedom, education and the emancipation of women — are not contemplated……. Withdrawal from the West Bank would bring Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport within range of short-range rockets fired by persons overlooking the runways. So, the feasibility of such a withdrawal depends on how much has changed since 1974, when Yasser Arafat received a standing ovation at the U.N. when he said Israel has no right to exist……..”

Immersion. George Will must have spent all of four days, or six days, or ten days max in Palestine/Isreal: he calls that immersion.
If Israel does not want to give up the West Bank, what next? Will she allow them to become annexed as Israeli citizens? Will she accept the fast rate of increase of the Palestinian population, notorious even in the Arab world for their very high begetting and begatting (they don't watch much television over there after dark)? How can Israel remain a “Jewish” state in this population sea without making its apartheid formal?
FYI: Israel's most "lethal" enemy, as he calls Iran, has never fired a shot at Israel. It may have to, soon, if the Likud does what it would like to do, what much of it seems bent on doing if they can't get the Americans to do it for them.
Cheers
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