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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Peace in the Middle East
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Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 23:07:04 EDT
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>> [The Israelis] can do what they damn well please with any territory they
>> can hold by force of arms.

>Very stupid of the US to get out of Germany, they just could have hold
>it in 1945.

Personally, I think the Morgenthau plan (deindustrialization of Germany)
would have been too lenient.  As I remember, the Russians did strip East
Germany of much of its industrial capacity, take a lot East Germans east
as slave laborers and still maintain an occupation force.   Somehow  the
mindless  (West)  European leftist notion of the equivalence of USSR and
USA policy seems to have no relation to reality.  Not that I would  mind
if the USA had treated W. Germany as the USSR treated E. Germany.