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	<title>Comments on: Diogenes of the Middle East</title>
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	<description>Cutting straight to the point</description>
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		<title>By: Ed Hausman</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/31/3919/comment-page-1#comment-29452</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed Hausman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Evelyn Gordon has an interesting refutation of the idea that dividing Jerusalem will bring at least demographic benefits.

In today&#039;s Jerusalem Post column, &quot;Civil Fights: The report nobody&#039;s talking about&quot; she cites the analysis of a leftist institute that reverses its previous support for surrendering Arab areas of the city.  

The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies now realizes that few if any Arabs would actually leave Israel, even if we gave up the neighborhoods they live in to our enemies.

I strongly suggest that Israel change its negotiating strategy from accommodation to elimination: determine the best deal we can offer the non-citizen Arabs to leave Eretz Yisrael, and those who refuse to consider it should be thrown out.

While others like Benny Elon believe Jordan is their natural national home, I suggest Syria, which embraces their most radical leadership, should be forced to take in these masses who have been misled, abused, and degraded by that leadership&#039;s policies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evelyn Gordon has an interesting refutation of the idea that dividing Jerusalem will bring at least demographic benefits.</p>
<p>In today&#8217;s Jerusalem Post column, &#8220;Civil Fights: The report nobody&#8217;s talking about&#8221; she cites the analysis of a leftist institute that reverses its previous support for surrendering Arab areas of the city.  </p>
<p>The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies now realizes that few if any Arabs would actually leave Israel, even if we gave up the neighborhoods they live in to our enemies.</p>
<p>I strongly suggest that Israel change its negotiating strategy from accommodation to elimination: determine the best deal we can offer the non-citizen Arabs to leave Eretz Yisrael, and those who refuse to consider it should be thrown out.</p>
<p>While others like Benny Elon believe Jordan is their natural national home, I suggest Syria, which embraces their most radical leadership, should be forced to take in these masses who have been misled, abused, and degraded by that leadership&#8217;s policies.</p>
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		<title>By: Rahel</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/31/3919/comment-page-1#comment-29436</link>
		<dc:creator>Rahel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rabbi Kanefsky lost me at the &quot;land dispute&quot; bit. I don&#039;t believe that this is or has ever been a land dispute.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rabbi Kanefsky lost me at the &#8220;land dispute&#8221; bit. I don&#8217;t believe that this is or has ever been a land dispute.</p>
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		<title>By: Alex Bensky</title>
		<link>http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/31/3919/comment-page-1#comment-29434</link>
		<dc:creator>Alex Bensky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aside from the valid point about not announcing what you&#039;re willing to settle for at the outset of a negotiation, I might agree with the good rabbi if his suggestion had a chance of bringing a reasonable peace.

When I worked for a labor union obviously we&#039;d want as much as we could get, the employer would want to keep as much as he could, but there was the strong tacit assumption between us that at some point we&#039;d reach an agreement that we both could live with.

If giving up some of Jerusalem was likely to help reach a fair and amicable settlement, I might support it. But the Palestinian line--what they really mean, not what they whisper to western media and diplomats--is that they don&#039;t want to reach a compromise, they want it all.

All this will dok, then, is yet again give everyne a chance to assign the failure of peace to Israeli intransigence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aside from the valid point about not announcing what you&#8217;re willing to settle for at the outset of a negotiation, I might agree with the good rabbi if his suggestion had a chance of bringing a reasonable peace.</p>
<p>When I worked for a labor union obviously we&#8217;d want as much as we could get, the employer would want to keep as much as he could, but there was the strong tacit assumption between us that at some point we&#8217;d reach an agreement that we both could live with.</p>
<p>If giving up some of Jerusalem was likely to help reach a fair and amicable settlement, I might support it. But the Palestinian line&#8211;what they really mean, not what they whisper to western media and diplomats&#8211;is that they don&#8217;t want to reach a compromise, they want it all.</p>
<p>All this will dok, then, is yet again give everyne a chance to assign the failure of peace to Israeli intransigence.</p>
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