Dr. Irving Moskowitz
After the Six Day War of 1967, Arab propagandists adopted a new strategy. They put the old "Throw the Jews into the sea!" slogan on the back burner and replaced it, temporarily, with "Throw the Jews back to the 1967 borders"--or, in its more tactful phrasing, "There can be no peace until Israel withdraws from the occupied territories." In those days, most Israelis understood that even if they surrendered those territories, there would still be no peace, because Arab demands did not end at the 1967 border.
Time passed, memories grew dim, and gradually significant numbers of Israelis and Diaspora Jews came to believe that a return to the 1967 borders was the key to peace.
But the passage of time did not make Arab memories grow dim. The Arabs never forgot that they regard even the areas within the 1967 borders as "occupied Palestine." Thus one of Yasser Arafat's top aides, Ahmed Qurei, recently asserted that when Arafat declares his state, it will be according to the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan boundaries, not the 1967 lines. Dust off your old maps and take a look--the 1947 lines sliced the Jewish State into three separate parts, each connected by a tiny corridor, and altogether far smaller than the extremely narrow 1967 borders. In a word, they are borders that are completely indefensible.
But don't assume that the Arabs will stop there. Today they are poised to push Israel back to 1967. When they declare their state, they will begin the push to return to 1947. When that is accomplished, they will set their sights on the rest of "Palestine." It's only a mater of time.
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