MUST READ: LAND FOR PEACE IS A FAILED STRATEGY FOR ISRAEL

Land For Peace Is A Failed Strategy for Israel
by Ted Belman

Nothing should be taken for granted. Neither Resolution 242 nor the proposed "land for peace" trade off. On June 5th 1967, Israel, under great threat of an imminent attack, had no choice but to defend itself. And defend itself, it did. Six days later Israel found itself in possession of what was left of the British Mandate after Jordan was removed from it.

Israel made two fateful policy decisions;

1. Rather than annex the lands pursuant to its rights under the British Mandate, Israel offered to return much of the land for peace.

2. Rather than to obliterate the al Aksa Mosque which sits on the Temple Mount, Israel took down the flag of Israel and turned its management over to the
Muslim Wakf.

To no avail. The Arabs, meeting three months later at Khartoum, decided on no negotiations, no recognition and no peace.

Israel clearly wanted peace not land and the Arabs wanted land (Israel's destruction), not peace.

Had Israel decided otherwise on both accounts, history would have been rewritten in Israel's favour. There may not have been a formal peace but a defacto peace.

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Ted Belman, is the editor of IsraPundit.com


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1) Land For Peace Is A Failed Strategy for Israel

2) IsraPundit.com