Secretary Baker’s Mideast Visit
The true consequence of a continued greater Israel is one unforeseen by either its advocates or its opponents. If Judea and Samaria continue to be constituents of Israel long into the future, Israel will no longer continue to be a Jewish state.
Like the Davidic Empire of long ago or Islamic states of today, states that provide special dispensations for a certain religion or religions come to grief on the rock of equality before the law. The Soviet immigration will not stop the growing Arabization of Israel if the territories are retained. And even as today’s Israel has two official languages, Hebrew and Arabic, tomorrow’s Israel will have the same two in the opposite order.
The hard-liners should start to recognize the democratic and demographic facts and base their decisions thereon.
VIRGIL B. STROHMEYER, Alhambra
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