Prof. Francesco Gil-White & Dr. David Wurmser: Is US Policy Saving the Ayatollahs?

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1. “Their refusal to make the difficult choice of telling the Americans “no”, now, at this moment, will see them making the retreats they hope will avert American anger; it will see this effort fail even as the frontier moves from its present lines within the Arab heartland to new ones close to the Jewish cities; and most important, the Americans will make the same demands they always have envisioned since the days of the Roger Plan-total Israeli withdrawal.  And since this is a thing that not even the most dovish of Israelis will agree to, the result will be an ultimate Israeli firm “no”, an ultimate American anger of the kind all men of “new initiative” propose to avert today by compromise, and exactly the same conditions of confrontation that would come anyhow if the Israelis said their “no” today.  There would be one great difference, however, a “no” today will bring the crisis while Israel stands poised near the Arab capitols.  A “no” tomorrow, after all the hapless and confused compromises and “initiatives,” will bring the same crisis near Tel Aviv, Beersheva and Netanya.”

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2. Wonderful discussion. In particular I agree – and have always agreed that “world opinion” is a big loser. Aside from the US, which countries in “the world” are going to stop Israel from doing exactly what it needs to do?

   Self-sufficiency…

   Let’s start a countdown as of now…

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