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From: hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <233@cad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 05:30:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 05:30:04 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 2-May-86 06:36:15 EDT
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Summary: "Arab Radicals" And M.E. Peace

In article <500@bu-cs.UUCP>, dml@bu-cs.UUCP (David Matthew Lyle) writes:
> In article <470@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
> |
> |Over and over again people in favor of the air raid keep saying "What
> |else could we have done?", no matter how many times they are told, oh
> |well, they'll probably ignore this one also:
> |
> |DEFUSE THE PALESTINIAN SITUATION BY CONSTRUCTIVE ACTION
> 
> Yes, I agree that would be the best thing, but.....
> 
> If I recall, the King of Jordan tried to do just that.  He failed,
> through the efforts of countries such a Syria and Libya.  He even
> had the `blessings' of the US and receptiveness in Israel.  The 
> PLO has long refused to recognize or negotiate with Isreal (until
> recently), but now the PLO has become a very fragmented group.
> And face it, there are powers in that area that don't want to settle
> it!!  They just want their `Holy War'.
> 
If the U.S. and Israel would agree to apply the principle of non-acquisition 
of land by war to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, and drop
their objections to the participation of the PLO and the creation of a
Palestinian state, then I feel certain that at least Syria and Jordan,
as well as the major PLO groups (including Arafat's Fatah and the Syrian-
based Salvation Front) would be willing to enter into serious peace
negotiations that would deal with a comprehensive settlement. Such a
settlement would have to include Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon,
the Syrian Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza and Arab East Jerusalem.
That will still leave a (much diminished) rejection group. However,
an agreement perceived as just would eventually be accepted in much
of the Arab World.

However, any attempts at limited two-party agreements, as had been
done in the Camp David Egyptian-Israeli accord, or the now defunct
"Jordanian Option" are bound to meet with stiff resistance by the
excluded parties.