The Peace FAQ:
Land for Peace
Frequently Asked Questions:
In general, what is the "Land for Peace" solution?
- This solution is proposed to resolve a conflict whereby one side desires more peace, and the other side desires more land.
It is hoped that by the offer of significant land or territory, the other side will let it live in peace. The side that desires more land, and has been withholding peace, one assumes does not qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize, as peace is not its ultimate goal but simply a commodity it claims to be willing to trade.
- The Society for Rational Peace
- "[T]angible assets in exchange for empty promises"
- Evelyn Gordon, offering an alternative description of "land-for-peace". (The Jerusalem Post, July 14)
Can the land-giver be certain that peace will never again be withheld?
- "My good friends, for the second time in our history, A British
Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing Peace With Honor. I
believe it is Peace For Our Time. Go home and have a good sleep."
- British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain 1938
September 15, 1938: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain set out for Germany to visit Adolph Hitler. Hitler wasn't asking for too much... just the liberation of the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia [Sudetenland]. It was a sweet little "Land for Peace" deal that would hopefully appease the Fuhrer and give the German-speaking Czechs their "rights of self-determination"... albeit under Nazi control. Fifteen days later the Sudetenland was handed over to Hitler. In exchange, Hitler gives his word that he has no other territorial designs on Europe.
October 1, 1938: Germany now owns half of Czechoslovakia and not a single shot was fired. Before the year ended, Hitler broke his agreement and occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia. The following year Hitler invaded Poland. He continued to invade most of Europe, Africa, Russia and even bombed Chamberlain's very own Britain. Needless to say, the duped Chamberlain was replaced rather quickly by Winston Churchill. The Brits had THEIR fill of "Land for Peace!"
- "...the policy of
"territory for peace"...logically entails the surrender
of Israeli territory whenever Arabs threaten war. And as anyone may see
from the US House of Representatives Task Force Report on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare issued on December 10, 1996, the territorial
shrinkage of Israel following the Oslo peace process has triggered a
"frantic military build-up" by Arab and Islamic states who now see an
opportunity to annihilate the Jewish State.
- Prof. Paul Eidelberg, Co-founder and President of the Foundation for Constitutional Democracy in the Middle East
- "Land for Peace" had a nice ring to it. But the majority of Israeli and
foreign Jews believed, and still do, that the Arabs would take the land and
break the peace.
- A.M. ROSENTHAL, New York Times
What will happen if the surrender of land reduces a state's ability to defend itself from the receivers of the land?
- Some illusions die hard. Perhaps none is more resilient than the
belief that Israel can buy peace with its sworn enemies by reducing
the Jewish State's ability to defend itself against them.
- Center for Security Policy, 4 March 1996
- RELATED SECTIONS:
Peace, Peace Now, Camp David, Oslo, The Phased Plan, Expansionism, Arabs, Galut Mentality, Stockholm Syndrome, Double Standards, Terrorism, Jihad, Islam, Palestine, Security, The Golan Heights, The Occupied Territories, The West Bank, Syria, Egypt
- WWW RESOURCES:
- BOOKS & PRINTED MATERIAL:
- The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy, by Neal Kozodoy, Mark Helprin
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - Roadmap To Nowhere: A Layman's Guide to the Middle East Conflict, by Yitschak Ben Gad
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism, by Conor Cruise O'Brien
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege, by Kenneth Levin
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israel Conflict, Second Edition, by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The High Cost of Peace: How Washington's Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to Terrorism, by Yossef Bodansky, Jim Saxton
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The Camp David Summit - What Went Wrong?: Americans, Israelis, And Palestinians Analyze The Failure Of The Boldest Attempt Ever to Resolve the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, by Shimon Shamir, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations, by Benjamin Netanyahu
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - View from the Eye of the Storm: Terror and Reason in the Middle East, by Haim Harari
[VIEW BOOK HERE]
- The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy, by Neal Kozodoy, Mark Helprin
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