The Israeli-Palenstian Horror

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Monday April 19, 2004 · 9:08 AM PDT

2004/04/19 · 09:08

Over the last two weeks, many Kossacks have voiced their displeasure and anger with the Bush Administration's decision to support Sharon's plan to pull out of Gaza but keep most of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Indeed, I share in this anger because I am worried that the more America appears to have completely sided with conservative elements of the Israeli government, the more Israelis and Americans will die. Why?

Because if the world's only superpower will support and enforce the goals and ideas of the Likud, then the Palestinians will realize that the prospect of ever regaining their homeland has essentially been swept away with this pact. With no hope, what is to stop Palestinian terrorism on the scale that we have never seen before? What is to stop Palestinian terrorists (like Hamas and Hezbollah) to join with Al-Queda?

However, I am not angry with John Kerry, unlike many here were last week. Indeed many here state the ridiculous notion that Howard Dean would have handled this better.

Why you ask? Didn't Kerry simply agree with Bush? If you are angry at Bush, then you have to be angry at Kerry, right?

No, these are valid questions, but it is my opinion that this is a simple election year ploy to garner the Jewish-American vote. The President is trying to corner the market on the Jewish vote. Kerry cannot let that happen, so he removes the issue from the table.

I cannot say that I have a problem with that. And the reason for that is you simply cannot have the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a US Presidential Campaign issue. The conflict is much too complicated for the average voter to even begin to understand. And further, there is no right and wrong in this conflict. It is all wrong. There are not just two sides of the conflict but thousands. Finally, there are not just two solutions to the conflict, one which Bush can endorse and one that Kerry can endorse.

But since many Kossacks have taken the liberty to attack Kerry for his statements last week, I must assume that they know how to solve the entire Israeli-Palenstinian problem. Therefore, I wish to start discussion here today so I can here these solutions.

What is the correct plan for peace in the Middle East?

How do we solve this conflict so that both the Israelis and the Palenstinians will be happy?

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