This idea of an "international buffer force" in Lebanon could be just the ticket...!
It seems totally foolish to have two combatant groups that hate each other, staring across a "blue line" border... It's a recipe for disaster.
Consider what the Allies had to do to Germany after World War Two...
Germany was occupied and divided for a generation!
As a general rule--combatants should NEVER "share" a common border...unsupervised after a war. That's simply asking for more trouble...?
Amazingly, this idea could also be used to "protect" Israel from those nasty Palestinians!
AND SOLVE A MAJOR PROBLEM ONCE AND FOR ALL.... NAMELY, THE ELUSIVE TWO STATE SOLUTION!
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY COULD "ESTABLISH BORDERS" AND SET UP AN INTERNATIONAL FORCE AT THE BORDER...TO "FRISK" ANY PALESTINAN CROSSING INTO ISRAEL...
THE PALESTINIANS WOULD STAY ON THEIR SIDE OF THE BORDER. AND THE ISRAELIS ON THEIR SIDE...ON PAIN OF INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AND CONDEMNATION FOR ANY "VIOLATIONS."
WHY HASN'T THIS BEEN TRIED...?
Well, the sad answer is that Israel won't allow it...
Israel wants to annex the "occupied territories" sooner or later...and establish a "Greater Israel" on the supposedly "Biblical" West Bank and Gaza... That's the so-called Likud agenda of the ultra-right in Israel...but it is NEVER even mentioned inside the US! NEVER!
That's why the Zionists are constantly stirring up trouble in the Palestinan settlements...and making the lives of Palestinians as dismal as the international community will allow.
Israel really has no intention of EVER giving the Palestinians a "state"....ANYWHERE!
The entire problem in the middle east is Israel's unwillingness to "tell the truth" about their intentions on the West Bank and in Gaza...
This has been obvious to everyone for years....
The Europeans know it...that's why they are often accused in the American media as being "anti-Israel."
But amazingly, many, if not most Americans DON'T KNOW THE TRUTH about the West Bank and Gaza conflict...
When the population of THE major super-power is "kept in the dark" on a MAJOR issue really, really big problems can develop...!
Sort of like NOW! Because, it's hard for a government to lie consistantly over a long period of time. Sooner or later things come unravelled... Suddenly the enemy doesn't seem so "evil" and the domestic politicans start to look "dishonest." (Dubya & Cheney for example.)
Wouldn't it be great if Israel just told the truth about the West Bank FINALLY! THEN we could just get on with it...?
After these many long years...the truth out of Israel would be refreshing!
Better late than never! Especially now!!
