I think it is less than useful to debate most of Santorum's idiotic theories. He has a pretty low chance of becoming President. Low enough for me to ignore. But, in this policy point, he speaks for a lot of people and makes a point that doesn't seem stupid - at first.
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I think Rick Santorum spoke a truth that many people believe when speaking he was discussing Israel and Palestine. Perhaps he did it out of stupidity or naivete or just pandering or he was bored, but he he brought up a interesting idea none the less.
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Like Gingrinch (who recently said there are no Palestinian people), Rick Santorum thinks that the West Bank belongs to Israel - both from a Biblical point of view and a "we won it fair and square" point of view. He likens it, in fact, to America "winning Texas and Mexico" (yes - his grasp of both history and geography is hopelessly garbled, but we all know what he means). At first blush, this might even seem a reasonable viewpoint. But let us look at it's implications.
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With a "One State" solution, Israel either:
a - ceases to be Jewish (there are many many more non-Jews than Jews once you throw in the West Bank and Gaza).
b - ceases to be a Democracy in order to preserve being Jewish
c - creates apartheid or some sort of "3/5's of a person" system of voting in order to disenfranchise the Palestinians and keep political power.
d - kills all the vast majority of Palestinians, like Americans killed the vast majority of the Indians
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None of these seems to be a viable answer to me (and probably the rest of the world). What Gingrinch and Santorum propose is so unpalatable that even the most Zionist Israelis don't want a "One State" solution.
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Then there is the International Community side effect, which is an approved policy of supporting wars of conquest. Santorum's line of reasoning (winning land fair and square) means that Iraq should have kept Kuwait in the 1980's, and wars over Kashmir, the Falkland Islands and other hotspots are the appropriate method of territorial expansion. Surely he doesn't mean this? (In all fairness - I am sure he hasn't even though this through. He doesn't think he will be President either. And, if he thinks about it, he has such a hard-on about stopping gay sex, heterosexual adultery and all contraception that this is pretty far down his priority list.)
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Of course he doesn't mean this. What we have here is a case of an idiot who has let his mouth work overtime while his brain was napping - or a man who believes that the territorial apportionment in the Bible should be used for governing (and therefore Israel should be prepared to give Tel Aviv back to the Phonecians).
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Jefferson Wept.