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No recognized border for Israel

The Economist has an interesting letter noting that the Arab world has not given their "international recognition" to any Israeli borders.

"It is incorrect to refer to the “Green Line” as “Israel's internationally recognised border” (“Rowing Rabbis (cont.)”, December 9th). The Green Line represents the ceasefire lines drawn up in 1949 after the Arab-Israeli war, and up until 1967 Israel's Arab neighbours never recognised this as an international border. Following the Six Day War, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242 that called for Israel to withdraw from “territories occupied in the recent conflict” (note it did not say all territories) in return for a permanent peace agreement and termination of all hostilities. It did not call for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal to the Green Line, nor recognise this as Israel's permanent border.

The language of the resolution was carefully drafted to allow for territorial adjustments as part of any peace negotiations, and this is reflected in the agreements that Israel eventually signed with Egypt and Jordan, the Oslo Accords signed with the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Ehud Barak's proposals to Yasser Arafat at Camp David in 2000. The recent proposal made by Ehud Olmert to resume negotiations with the Palestinians is also consistent with this principle."

Maybe the USA should offer to evacuate all Jewish women and children before Iran nukes them?

Posted by: TomGrey at 12/27/06 22:42 | link | comments
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Merry Christmas to all

It's Christmas day -- the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

It's a wonderful holiday, a great family day.  I'm blessed with a loving wife, 4 great kids, a nice life in Slovakia.

Even an OK job, I think.  Which I have to go back to on Wed.

Posted by: TomGrey at 12/25/06 22:55 | link | comments (1)
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The Race -- Democracy or Mushroom Cloud?

The Iraq War is not The Big Deal in the Middle East.  Iran getting nukes, and allowing if not supporting the destruction of Tel Aviv is the real nightmare.

Ron Rosenbaum, like Roger L Simon, is sad and pesimistic:

The logic of nuclear deterrence that once prevailed in the U.S./USSR Cold War no longer obtains. Now one side (Iran) feels it can absorb and survive nuclear retaliation if necessary to exterminate the other side (Israel).

Ron has no real constructive ideas tho...
"Are there any deterrrents that will stop Ahmadinejad and his ilk from carrying out their genocidal designs? I wish I could believe there were. Any ideas?"

Dr. Sanity has an idea, assassination:

In each area of conflict--Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan), Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza--there are key individuals (Sadr, Bin Laden & Zawahiri, Assad, the mullahs & Ahmadinejad, Nasrallah; and all the lesser potentates) who need to be "deterred" with extreme prejudice and sent to their promised reward with Allah. It is either target them as individuals; or, as Rosenbaum concludes, we must be prepared for the catastrophic deaths they will inflict both on us and their own people.

While I fully agree with Dr. S, that targetting the heads of state of the Islamofascists would be the best practice, I must note the real evil-creators.

The Imams and Mullahs -- the Islamic "holy people".  Who believe that Allah himself has given the Arabs oil, so as to have the power to kill the Jews.

Even before assassinations, there should be tape recordings of the sermons given by the Jew haters, translated into English.

The oil must be taken away from regimes which are unwilling to respect Free Religion and Free Speech; both Iran & Saudi Arabia.  With a lot more pressure on Kuwait -- why didn't the US force Kuwait to become a functioning Arab democracy after it was liberated in Gulf War I?

The Oil Trust Fund idea is the best bet -- so that the Arab people get more cash, and the gov't/ leaders/ wannabe dictators get less.

The race is still on as to which side will be first: successful democracy & human rights OR crazy leader with a nuke; and Tel Aviv goes mushroom.  I thought with Bush invading Iraq, democracy would win.  Now I fear the mushroom cloud wins.

Michael Ledeen has long been on about Iran.

Posted by: TomGrey at 12/22/06 17:58 | link | comments
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Two weeks off for Slovanet problems

I have a new job, and have been very busy.

I have a new network provider, but switching networks took 2 weeks longer than Slovanet promised.

Welcome to Slovakia.

Posted by: TomGrey at 12/19/06 07:56 | link | comments
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