Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bu-cs!dml
From: dml@bu-cs.UUCP (David Matthew Lyle)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <549@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-May-86 17:14:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.549
Posted: Sun May  4 17:14:37 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 05:12:27 EDT
References: <470@bu-cs.UUCP> <500@bu-cs.UUCP> <233@cad.UUCP>
Reply-To: dml@bu-cs.UUCP (David Matthew Lyle)
Followup-To: net.followup
Distribution: net
Organization: Boston University -- Boston Massachusetts, USA
Lines: 36

In article <233@cad.UUCP> hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab) writes:
>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.

If I recall, the PLO has been excluded because they refuse agree that
Isreal has a right to exist.  If they would accept that fact, then
things might have been worked out a long time ago.

-- 

David Matthew Lyle                           dml@bu-cs.bu.edu
Boston University                            dml@buenga.BITNET
Distributed Systems Group                    ...harvard!bu-cs!dml