tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7014209.post7674247375301922676..comments2024-03-29T14:19:30.130+03:00Comments on My Right Word: The Gorenberg Green Line GroanYMedadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14333122797414935958noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7014209.post-71011263176623537642012-03-27T06:30:35.618+02:002012-03-27T06:30:35.618+02:00The "Green Line" was NEVER an official b...The "Green Line" was NEVER an official border. It was simply a line penciled by the Israeli and Jordanian armies at a particular point in time in 1949 when they declared a ceasefire. It left open the question of where the final borders should be established for later negotiation.<br /><br />As drawn, the "Green Line" makes no strategic, economic or political sense. It leaves Israel with a 15 mile waist that can be severed by an invading Arab army and it cedes the high ground in Judea and Samaria to the Arabs.<br /><br />Israel is forced (according to the Israeli Left's view of a final settlement) to incorporate a hostile Arab population in the Little Triangle and is forbidden to swap it for equivalent Jewish population in J&S that would provide with territory that can be more easily defended.<br /><br />In any event, to the Arabs, there is no real difference between pre-1967 and post-1967 Israel; they reject the existence of a Jewish State within any conceivable set of borders. There is nothing sacred or magical about the Israel of 1949 when it was a small and impoverished country constantly struggling for survival.<br /><br />Maybe Gershom Gorenberg, like most Israeli leftists is nostalgic for those days. Most Israelis agree Israel needs borders that correspond to its actual requirements and not to some arbitrary lines penciled on a long dated military map that bears no relationship to reality whatsoever.<br /><br />Every Israeli government has rejected returning outright to the old lines and this will not change in the future. A negotiated settlement won't give both sides everything they want, a point conveniently overlooked by Israel's critics. So much for the talk of mythical Golden Age borders that in truth, never existed in the first place.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13617524186967828711noreply@blogger.com