Continuing the latest media trend to revise Mideast history, columnist Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times argues that Israel’s security fence is part of a systematic land-grabbing effort.
Israel’s original land grant, made by the United Nations in 1947, was for 55 percent of Palestine. After the 1948 war, Israel held 78 percent. The wall is an attempt to annex some of the choicest bits of the other 22 percent.
Actually, Israel offered to return the West Bank and Gaza in exchange for peace immediately after the Six Day War. But the Arab response was the famous “Three No’s.” Does Ramsey plan to rewrite that too?
