Is the Israel-Arab Conflict Solvable?                                                                                                                               

Questions and Answers are cited below as

"Q" and "A"

1. Q: Is the Rand Corporation's proposed solution of building and financing a so-called Palestinian state in Israel's 3 _ millennia homeland the answer to the Israel-Arab Conflict?

A: Your Plain Talker addressed this question to Rand Corporation. He himself, is a member of "Friends for Rand." (See Plain Talk of March/April 2005, Issue #2.)

The Rand Report does not meet the applicable facts and logic. But, to the contrary, it is counteractive to settlement of the Israel-Arab so-called "Palestinian" conflict.

2. Q: Is there a solid summary of Why "An independent homeland for the "Palestinians" is unwarranted?

A: Yes. See annexed advertisement of FLAME (Facts & Logic About the Middle East) in Los Angeles Times Magazine, April 24, 2005, p.91, --"A Homeland for the Palestinians?"

3. Q: Are there significant "New Signs on the Arab Street" summarizing the logical and practical reasons why the economic facts show readiness for a new Israel-Arab relationship?

A: Yes, and they are summarized in the Sunday, March 13, 2005 New York Times Op-Ed by Thomas L. Friedman: "New Signs on the Arab Street." (See annexed.)

Friedman summarizes the current "messages in this bottle."

   "One is that if you can create a real opportunity for Israeli and Egyptian businesses to interact profitably, not only will Egyptians ignore the protests of the old Nasserites who want to boycott Israel, they will seize the opportunity and protest mightily if they are kept out."

4. Q: Is there a further important message in Friedman's article?

A: Yes. "This ëBaghdad spring' will not blossom into sustainable democracy in any of these Arab states without a broader middle class and civil society institutions to support it. For too long, U.S. foreign policy was based on buying stability in the Arab world by supporting dictators, who destroyed all the independent press, political parties, unions, real private sector and civil society in their countries óeverything except the mosque. Iraq is the starkest example of this, which is why democratization there will take time."

5. Q: Anything else from Friedman?

A: Yes. He points out: "America's priority should be to sign a free-trade agreement with Egypt -which would help foster an export-oriented private sector there just when President Mubarak has signaled an end to 50 years of military rule -and get Syria out of Lebanon. (Editor's note: This is happening right now.) This would free the dynamic private sector that already exists there, but has been stifled by Syria. Free Lebanon and free Egypt's economy and they will change the rest of the Middle East for us - for free."

6. Q: Is there American military experience suggesting very strongly why such solutions as "Bush/Sharon" push for Israel's turnover of territory to so-called "Palestinians" in their so-called "Palestinian state" can be counter-productive?

A: Yes.

7. Q: To which reports am I referring?

A: The four or five reports over the years from the American military observers on the question "Defendability of Israel?" All have concurred that Israel is "defendable" only if it is in control of the area from Jordan and the Jordan River (1,000 ft. below Sea Level) to Israel's westerly mountain heights of approximately 2,500 ft., then easing down to the Mediterranean. This makes Israel defendable. Otherwise, overwhelming enemy forces can occupy Israel's heights before it has the essential time to bring up its reserves at the heights.

8. Q: Why, then, is Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon calling on Israel to turn over to the so-called "Palestinian state" -the Gaza Strip and contiguous portions of Samaria and Judea?

A: The answer to that question is better left for Sharon to answer to the satisfaction of his electorate.

9. Q: Has the electorate spoken?

A: Yes.

10. Q: And what does the electorate tell Sharon?

A: What you would expect normally from people who are asked to give up their 3 _ millennia birthright and risk self-destruction.

11. Q: Anything more specific than that?

A: Yes. Israel's electorate finds it difficult, if not impossible to understand how Sharon, can now recommend settlements and territory of its homeland being turned over to its potential and actual enemies, -where he, himself called for the essentiality of Israel's creating and defending those settlements in its own homeland, -and their related defense.

12. Q: Anything more on this point?

A: Yes. Reference is made to an element very currently before the Israeli electorate.

13. Q: What is that?

A: Evidence offered by Israel's prestigious "Women in Green" of related unrevealed Sharon connections, helping to understand the otherwise "un-standable" 100% change in Sharon's concessions for his country including the Gaza Strip and other territories.

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See annexed:

1. "A Homeland for the Palestinians?"-
(Article published by FLAME)
2. "New Signs on the Arab Street,"
by Thomas Friedman, New York Times Op-Ed, March 13, 2005

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