Israel moves to legalize unauthorized settlements

[fauzman]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:
This discussion is highly thread derailing. Contain it, you two, or i'll report you both.

Not to mention as someone  partly of Aremenian decent it's kinda hard to not butt in about the "compassion" of the Turks.  At least the US is upfront about it and apologized about the Native Americans. (Though it took waaaay to long.)

 

RE: Birthrates as well, I hear the Palestinian birth rates aren't quite as high as often reported as well. How do you figure this? All reports I have read that the Palestinian arab birth rate (including Gazans, West Bank and Israel proper citizens) is higher than the Jewish birth rates.  Still if it came to a one state solution I think Israel would probably just deport all the Palestinians. Thats about the stupidest comment ever and impossible legally. Aside from the fact that Israel is a democracy (though not always in practice) there are over 1M  arabs in Israel proper who are recognised as citizens. Also, arabs have lived in Israel for a long time (longer than the current Jewish) and own their own land. Not to mention the PR disaster such a move would be - if the arabs dont like Israel now they will probably be fuming after such a move. Probably all to the Golan heights and then just hand the thing back over to Syria. (If they'd want it.) Israel will never give the Golan Heights back to Syria EXCEPT in the case of a treaty normalising relations (kinda like Egypt with the Sinai). GH is too strategically important for any war between the two. 

It's hard to forget that the arabs biggest reason for supporting Palestine is that they don't want there refugees, as can be seen by the way they're often treated. No its not. Its true that this may be a factor in SOME countries but by and large, most arabs support the palestinians  because they are arabs NOT becasue of refugees (similar to how jews all over the world support Israel).