The NYTimes editorial today, May 20, "The Gaza Quagmire", claims that Israel is planning "to unilaterally destroy the Palestinian territory". That would appear to be an absurdity.
Territory remains. After all, after the Jews were expelled from their country not once, but twice, and
they returned. They returned to build new cities and kibbutzim and they returned to ancient
locations. In 1947, they accepted a partition of their territory yet the Arabs could not agree to this compromise. In 1967, the Jews returned to their Biblical landscape, their historical homeland, and once again, after accepting the Oslo Accords, Israel allowed Arabs to assume control over territory they presumed to call their own.
Israel now is dealing with a ruling Palestinian Authority that for the past decade has broken every agreement and which, as President Bush asserts, supports terror. Israel has been trying, rightly or wrongly, to provide the Palestinians withsome territory and Sharon even wants to give tham all Gaza.
Nevertheless, they refuse to use that territory except as an instrument of war against Israel and its citizens.
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