By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:27:11 +0000

When the peace treaty was signed between Egypt and Israel, all land in the Sinai Israel captured in 1967 was returned. Gaza could have been returned at the same time, but Egypt’s Sadat would not have it. The Egyptians want the Palestinian Arabs no more than the Israelils do, less perhaps. Their “Arab Brothers” treat the Palis worse than the Israelis do, and for excellent reasons from their point of view. The Palis go around starting civil wars in Arab countries. Their “Brother Arabs” keep them, therefore, in refugee camps, that serve as their prisons, when at all possible. Only Jordan makes them citizens, and they return Jordan’s favor by being relentlessly hostile to the Jordanian King. In the Gulf they are hewers of wood and frawers of water for their “Arab Brothers”. Kuwait threw out a quater million of them aftr the First Gulf War for being supporters of Saddam. Iraq threw out more after the Second Gulf War for being Saddam’s pets. Mubarak does not want them, and one can hardly blame him.

There are three choice about Gaza. The Gazans live in peace beside Israel; the Israelis drive them all from Gaza because the Arabs there refuse to live at peace with Israel; continuation of the present standoff, with Israel breaking some heads whenever the Arabs there get too frisky about attacking those despised Jews across the border in Israel. Since there is almost no chance of option one, and option two is not really one Israel is likely to take, the best we can hope for is a continuation of the present impasse. No Peace Process will result in peace, for the Arabs do not want it, no matter how much the Israelis long for it. Leave the Arabs to stew in their own sewage until they come to a more healthy understanding of just howmuch they need peace.

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By: Michael Lonie