Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)They must have had names, after all.
And is there any evidence that the people of Palestine actually supported these guys? Or had heard of them?
If you don't identify them, I have no reason to believe that they actually existed.
And here's the part of reality YOU are forgetting...even if Arafat was kept OUT of Palestine, the PLO itself was still there and its cooperation was still going to be needed to make a real peace agreement happen. How would THAT have happened under this magically wonderful approach you keep accusing the rest of the world of sabotaging?
Even with the local leaders to claim were emerging, you were still going to have to deal with the PLO at some point...just as the British had to deal with Sinn Fein to get actual peace in Northern Ireland. It's not as if you could have taken everybody in Fatah out militarily...if that was possible, your army would have managed it by the late Eighties.