| Rath said: @Killiana. The only reasons the Palestinians don't have a state is because all of their land was occupied and is slowly being annexed by Israel. The Palestinian people have lived in those lands for centuries, they are not a bunch of foreigners who have recently moved in trying to claim the land. That statement applies far more to the Israeli settlers who are illegally (under international law) settling the West Bank and East Jerusalem in an attempt to claim the promised land. My main gripe with Israel is those settlements, it is a blatant attempt to annex land which in no way or form belongs to them. |
Can you even have a gripe with them over that? I think that some settlements NEED to be kept.
Think about it this way. You and someone else are having a disupute about some money. A third party creates a settlement. You agree... the other person gets his friends and tries to take all the money by force.
You and your friends win.
What are the chances now that you want to go through with it as listed?
Maybe it's me, but if you go against a proposed deal and then declare war... you should lose at least some of what you had.
Just letting people declare war and then get what they had coming anyway is just a REALLY bad precedent.
There should be at least some land lost. What is the right amount though is something to be decided.
The worst mistake Palestine ever did was walk away from the deal on the table during the Clinton era.
