tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post110593239928478273..comments2023-05-27T23:20:32.194+10:00Comments on Marco's Blog: Marco Parigihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-1105948702122695372005-01-17T17:58:00.000+10:002005-01-17T17:58:00.000+10:00I don't know if I am entirely happy being labelled...I don't know if I am <I>entirely</I> happy being labelled as someone thinking along Neocon lines with regard to Israel/Palestine- only because I am unsure about what Neocon lines consist of in that case; I don't see a Neocon consensus that "our fight is their fight", or an articulated alternative view to the State Department's "if one concession doesn't work, concede some more" philosophy. Bush's refusal to meet with Yasser Arafat I consider an excellent step. I don't want to argue the "Does Israel suck?" question, since I have already described my <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fevildrclam.blogspot.com%2F2004%2F10%2Farik-and-me.html">conversion on the road to Damascus.</A> If it is the much more interesting question, "What to do next?", I regret that my ideas boil down to, "muddle along the way we are going." Foreign intervention was a catastrophic failure even when 10% of the population of British Palestine were foreign interveners with guns. By muddle along I mean unilateral disengagement and separation along the lines of the security fence/apartheid wall/antifascist protection barrier (pick one), together with a willingness to negotiate with any Palestinian leadership that manages to crush the local Islamofascists a la Syria or Algeria. Hmm, I am sounding less optimistic than I did before... I mean to be optimistic, I really do! But I can see a peaceful de facto boundary between Israel and Palestine coming about more readily than an independent Aceh, and I think ultimately the Achenese won't be satisfied with anything less. There will continue to be trouble in Indonesia until the Dutch empire is dismantled: every re-drawing of the Imperialist map <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fevildrclam.blogspot.com%2F2005%2F01%2Fone-giant-leap-for-mankind.html">elsewhere</A> will increase the pressure for this to happen.Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.com