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Pessimism over Rafah
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BobW
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There are probably more secret annexes to establish the pending "Palestine" than Carter's got......dictators teaching at his Sunday School.
Temporary agreements are like temporary taxes.
The Re'ut Institute is on to something. Whatever Israeli demilitarization demands.....do remember that GOI agreed to modify the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. Al Arish, Sinai is being remilitarized.
GOI's strategic planning is the next emergency phone call. This is because GOI is not a representative Jewish government with strong institutions staffed by those seeking furtherance of a Jewish cosmology.
Rafah resembles Taba. Look at the "benefits" relinquishing Taba yielded to GOI to forecast the benefits from Rafah.
Sigmund Freud cannot help us. Franz Kafka refuses.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on November 22, 2005 04:49 AM
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J. Lichty
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No other county in history has been forced to give an easement to another people, much less one sworn to, and proving it everyday, genocidal murder.
I simply cannot conceive how any Israeli leader could in clear conscience allow this deal. The road map is a disaster but at least it contains the plausible deniability that it is "performance based," and that the Arabs have some putative obligations.
It simply astounds me that "the bestest friend Israel ever had in the White House" would push this absolute capitulation to terror.
That the "Quartet" is entrusted with deciding the Jews' fate again, for the second time in the last 65 years, leaves me little comfort.
This is the worst decision to happen since 1949 when Israel left the arab fifth column in place.
Posted by: J. Lichty on November 22, 2005 08:39 AM
Pessimism over Rafah
By Danny Rubinstein, Ha'aretz
Is the agreement concerning the Rafah crossing a success or a failure? A victory or a defeat? On both sides, it depends, of course, on whom you ask. At the end of this week, the implementation of the first stage is supposed to begin, and the Rafah crossing is supposed to start regular operations. Afterward there are additional stages and additional dates that are related to the problematic issue of the passage of convoys between the West Bank and Gaza, among other things. The entire agreement is of a temporary nature, for one year; at the end of that year the third party (the Quartet, headed by the Americans) has to decide whether the arrangement has worked properly, and whether it is possible to rely on the Palestinians and to grant them greater control over the crossings.
[..]there was also at least one research agency, the Re'ut Institute, which determined that Israeli surrender of the security "envelope" (the authority entrusted with security control) is dangerous, since it means an erosion in the permanent Israeli demand that the Palestinian territories be demilitarized[...]
Posted by Ted Belman at November 22, 2005 03:50 AM