Much is being written of an upcoming Saudi-Israeli normalization, with significant concessions on the part of Israel. Limitation of the rights of over 600,00 Jews living in Judea and Samaria is involved. All for a piece of paper.

Many times treaties are not worth the paper they are written on.

The American Indians signed innumerable treaties to guarantee their lands. It did not work out well for them. The treaty of Versailles proved useless as Hitler militarized Germany in the early 1930s. The allies had no stomach to enforce anything. The Oslo Accords allowed the child-murderer Arafat to fester in the land of Israel and cost the lives of thousands of Jews. Ukraine had its territorial integrity guaranteed by treaty in a trade for ridding itself of nuclear weapons. I am sure they are regretting that move. The Russians guaranteed the safety of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh by treaty and then stood by as the region was blockaded and starved out for months. The Armenians were just forced to completely surrender. None of these treaties ended up being more useful than toilet paper.

Inalienable Jewish rights should never be limited or abrogated by a piece of paper. There are better uses for the paper.

Scott David Lippe, M.D.
Teaneck