Israel moves to legalize unauthorized settlements

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Mnementh said:

Yeah, you are right to a degree. But the UN-plan was the legitimation for the formation of israel, so saying that Palestine is no country borders on withdrawing legitimation to Israel. sure, the plan (especially the borderlines discussed at that time) cannot be executed unchanged today. But I think there is no other solution, that the existance of two indepent countries: Israel and Palestine. The situtation at the moment is unbearable.

And the made up country-part and historic precedents: at some time in history always was a nation constructed. So every nation is disputable from a historic standpoint.

Oh I agree with all of that, except the last part.

The large difference currently is that Palestine isn't a nation.  Other nations existence are less disputable because they are currently nations.

An "flipped" example would be something like Kosovo.  Which was disputable as a nation, then became one, and now it a nation.  This is slightly different since more or less Palestine is more of a "no mans land" then it is a part of Israel, but it's closer then compaing Palestine to say Greece, later Kosvo or even something like South Ossetia.

A two state solution is needed, but realistically, all that happens from a delay and from keeping their negotations private is a loss of Palestinian land, and a gain in Israeli land.  Even if the US backs off all support and a UN solution is implemented you can be sure that anywhere Israel has a significant population in will be left with israel.

What Palestine needs to do is make a public "Sweetheart" deal like in the Palestine papers and say "this is our deal, it's completely onesided against us, but we just want peace."   Israel would more or less be pressured to accept by everyone.

However they CAN'T do that because there people have generally been lied to about what a deal would look like and that they were fairly even bargaining partners.  Thoughts that the Palestine papers might be true was enough to force negotiatior resignations.

As it stands, it's a no win situation... because Hamas gains political power from the status quo, and Fatah would lose power if they made a deal that could actually get done or revealed just how weak their barganning plan is.

The current plan seems to be "Let our people suffer while us polticians are mostly fine removed from their struggles, and wait for the international community to bail us out."   When it SHOULD be "Let's take a hit and be removed from power and be hated by our countrymen, but get our people in a position where their economy can grow and don't suffer."

It's all political cowardness.

That's why i've been saying for a long time that it's Israel that needs to be the one to man up and double down. Boot the illegal settlers and then agree to a land-swap on the remaining settlements. The only real negative pressure against Israel is the rocket attacks from Gaza, however, which are more or less a non-issue, and thus why Israel won't back down and will continue strangling Palestine until there is a second Intifada, which they'll use as an excuse to deport them all.