Merged threads discussing Israel

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

What concessions? That agreement would have created bantustans. Pretty much where things are headed now anyway.
Arafat was correct to have rejected it.

Anybody who can't see that Israel are trying to gradually destroy the prospect of a Palestinians state, is quite simply put, thick as pig tulip. The wall and settlements eat into more land. Gaza acts as a prison camp and contains the rest in as little space as possible. There is no prospect of a Palestinian state while Israel has these policies.

[NotAllThere]

At what point did they stop levelling gaza and murdering Palestinians?

2005.

A year or so later Hamas gained some electoral power. There then followed a civil war (in Gaza) between Fatah and Hamas, which ended with Hamas in control. This was then followed by sanctions endorsed by the UN, and blockade of Gaza by Egypt and Israel. The blockade is widely regarded to be illegal under international law.

[lilelvis2000]

Anybody who can't see that Israel are trying to gradually destroy the prospect of a Palestinians state, is quite simply put, thick as pig tulip. The wall and settlements eat into more land. Gaza acts as a prison camp and contains the rest in as little space as possible. There is no prospect of a Palestinian state while Israel has these policies.

There never was a prospect. IMHO Israel would have taken the West Bank and then some anyway, regardless if Arab countries attacked them or not. Many PM have come out and stated that there are no prospects for one, and that the "home of the people who call themselves Palestinians, is Jordan. Because there was never any state called Palestine".

Its just a question why the state of limbo. Annexation or yet another generation under siege.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

There never was a prospect. IMHO Israel would have taken the West Bank and then some anyway, regardless if Arab countries attacked them or not. Many PM have come out and stated that there are no prospects for one, and that the "home of the people who call themselves Palestinians, is Jordan. Because there was never any state called Palestine".

Its just a question why the state of limbo. Annexation or yet another generation under siege.

One of the main issues is the idea of the holy land. Holy to all three major religions. I guess this will all end when Israelis policy of ethnic cleansing and destroying livelihoods is complete. With the expansions of settlements taking place in the West bank, I guess it will eventually happen.

[NotAllThere]

The main land of Israel has 20% Arabs as Israeli citizens. Their population is growing at 2.2%. The Jews have a growth rate of 1.7%. There ethnic cleansing on their own lands isn't very effective. Or do you think that the idea is to set up the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as "Jew Only" areas?