In Israel, Time for Peace Offer May Run Out

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/world/middleeast/03mideast.html?_r=1&hp

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:25 AM
Subject: re: In Israel, Time for Peace Offer May Run Out
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   In 1947, the UN voted to partition Palestine. At a stroke it mandated the creation of a Jewish state, an Arab state and the international enclave of Jerusalem. Perhaps it was hubris to mandate what it had neither the means nor the spine to enforce. In 1948 that international enclave was seized by the army of Jordan.  Now, Britain France and Germany  propose to enforce--not the UN map--but the map drawn by the Jordanians by force.  Is this line imbued with some special legitimacy?  This season the UN has shown a new assertiveness in calling for a no-fly zone in Libya. Perhaps it has finally found the spine to enforce the solution it saw in 1947. To enforce the 1967 line seems an act of caprice.

Barry Haskell Levine