joedees@bellsouth.net Mon 2002/08/05 03:44 AM wrote:
[Joe Dees 2] Still, the land must be fairly divided, with the
Palestinians being ceded the West Bank, Gaza and a travelling corridor
between them, all of the Jewish settlers in these areas, willing or
not, should be relocated back into Israel proper, and either Jerusalem
should be split, with east jerusalem being ceded to the Palestinians,
or the city should be internationalized, perhaps under UN
administration.
[Blunderov]
These have been pretty much my thoughts too. It seems a sensible way to
proceed. In fact it is hard to think of any other solution.
In attempting to think creatively about the situation I came up with the
following outrageous and possibly silly idea.
We need an anti-meme to balance the virulent strain of Islam that is
part of the problem. That anti-meme might be women's rights. In this
respect Islam is most noticeably (and semi apolitically!) out of step
with the rest of humanity. I stand to be corrected on this, but I
imagine there are a number of UN resolutions confirming that women have
rights which I suspect go very largely unsung in some of the more
fundamental Islamic states.(How is it that Pakistan had a female Prime
minister I wonder?)
We set the stage for an Islamic reformation, based on the rights of
women, which in turn will erode the literal interpretation of the Koran.
We go in not via the front door, but via the boudoir!
The US could play soft cop to the UN's hard guy.
If this meme took hold in Africa it would be a big help too.
Warm regards
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