[Peace-discuss] The other occupation

[C. G. Estabrook]

Acute questions.  And Wasserstein certainly sees the difficulty: he even
used the word "Bantustan" at one point.  And where did he get his Taba
map?  --CGE

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, David Green wrote:

> I basically agree with Carl and Mort's assessment of this rather odd
> occasion, although I give Wasserstein a lot of credit for having a
> grasp of the self- and other-destructiveness of Israel's behavior. I
> would have asked him to describe more about the period from 1993-2000,
> when Israel used the "peace process" to strangle the Palestinian
> economy. If Israel could not tolerate a viable Palestinian entity
> then, why would it now, when it is being given a free hand by the Bush
> (and future Kerry) administration?
> 
> DG
> 
> 
> --- "Morton K.Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Carl for posting that salient, if grim,
> > commentary by Chuckman.
> > 
> > I thought that Wasserstein's talk must have been
> > badly swallowed by 
> > most of the audience that night but was good
> > medicine on the whole for 
> > them. Although, I don't believe they'll accept it.
> > However, I too 
> > thought that there was a heavy dose of optimistic
> > unreality to his 
> > prognosis. Someone should have asked him who would
> > be left to represent 
> > the Palestinian cause for a renewed two-state
> > solution after the 
> > destruction of the Palestinian infrastructure by the
> > Sharon government. 
> > But more fantasy was his view that Sharon was seeing
> > the light, and 
> > would be willing to free up what little remains of
> > the Palestinian 
> > lands on the west bank.
> > 
> > The realism of Sharon that Wasserstein posited is
> > the realism of Bush.
> > 
> > MKB
> >