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Kasz216 on 28 May 2009
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superchunk said:
Kasz216 said:
It's not a big surprise. Israel wants to keep the settlements in so they have an extra barganning chip.

Even Israel doesn't want the majority of them there. They just know it's a chip they can hold on to.

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I would have to disagree. Its creating facts on the ground. There are many quotes from past Isreali PM's discussing the actual plan of slowly pushing Arabs out by means of these settlements. Just look at the progress of settlement growth. The most is slowly surrounding Jerusalem. This way when a solution does finally appear, the Jews can say that there is no way to give E. Jerusalem to Palestine as Jewish homes completely surround it.

That is why a total freeze is necessary, including the complete halt of 'natural growth'. The bigger they get the more resistant Israel will be to have them removed.

Off topic but... Is it even a good idea to give East Jersusalem to Palestine?

I mean... wouldn't it just end up like certain "battlegrounds" in Northern Ireland but a million times worse?  Wouldn't Palestine just become a complete disaster and unsafe area for anybody turning the holiest city in the world into the deadliest?

If it were me... I'd considering giving the city over to the UN and making it like Vatican city.

I'd say place the UN there... but that might be unsafe.  Perhaps the UN's second home... or a place where peace negotations between countries are made.  Considering an Israel Palestine settlement would be quite historic... it would all make good sense.