Naiveity of the worst kind - Reader comments at The New York Sun

Submitted by Dan, Nov 29, 2006 17:12

While the writers view that 10 years of cease fire is required is an intrigiung notion - he admits that down the road there would be a resumption of hostilities, but he neglects that he just placed Israel back in what Abba Eban termed 'Auschwitz Borders', and given the Arabs 10 years to build up weapons. I don't believe for a second European soldiers would actively enforce a demilitarized zone (check out their wonderful progress in Lebanon), allowing for this buildup to take place. The writer also advocates removing Jewish families from their homes, a terrible action, solely to capitulate to the PA, whom it seems can't manage a village or two of jews - and must have their prospective country Judenrein. Perhaps the writer should watch the last scene from Fiddler on the Roof until the impact hits him that Jews have been forced from their homes TOO often in the course of history, and the practice of mass evicting jews needs to stop now. And giving Hamas an idea of how to gain international support? They have too much support via terrorist sponsoring countries already, and they have legitimacy with far left leaning individuals and anti-semites as it is, to a level I'd call international support now.

This plan is garbage, and could very well lead the Israelis into a holocaust. I didn't think Mr. Halkin was in the same apocolyptic boat as Ahmadinejad.

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Who is retaliting against who? That was my question when I first went to Lebanon. When I witnessed first hand... [MORE]	Abe March	Dec 4, 2006 11:48
It is very interesting how you manipulate the truth. Truces and ceasefire have been broken countless times. By whom???? The Palestinians!!!!... [MORE]	Ira Salomon	Nov 30, 2006 16:12
Mr. Halkin, you are terribly naive and innocent. Let me remind you that Abba Eban, also somewhat of a peacenik,... [MORE]	Dave Levi	Nov 30, 2006 16:10
Based on past experience, a truce is likely to be honoured more by the Israeli side than the Palestinian, resulting... [MORE]	Russell Cohen	Nov 30, 2006 06:07
At last count, Israel, going back to 1948 has offered the Palestinians a state 10 times. The response in varying... [MORE]	Dave Levi	Nov 30, 2006 10:18
Since the International guarantees have been worthless in preventing Hizbollah from rearming to prewar strength, why expect international guarantees to... [MORE]	Marsha Williams	Nov 29, 2006 17:31
While the writers view that 10 years of cease fire is required is an intrigiung notion - he admits that...	Dan	Nov 29, 2006 17:12
I just google-searched for the spelling of naiveity (which still does not "look right" to me!) and this came up... [MORE]	a dark ally	Dec 1, 2007 08:39
Why not try again? Because entire world suffers from a failure to connect the dots of history. A renewed effort is... [MORE]	popo	Nov 29, 2006 16:41
Without going into a deep philosophical argument about why peace between Arab and Jew is futile, all we have to... [MORE]	Dave Levi	Dec 1, 2006 18:02
Great article [MORE]	.	Nov 29, 2006 13:24