> Michael Dinowitz wrote: > >>But in terms of the modern State of Israel, the West Bank was not part of > >>the original borders. > > > > Actually, it was. It was seized by egypt during the first war and held onto until >the last one. Of course, egypt never built a palestinian state on the land. > > Was it? I thought it was left by the British as "mandate area" (whatever > that may be) in 1948, just as the Gaza strip was. Of the british mandate, 80% went to become jordan which has a massive palestinian population. Gaza was part of that 20%.
> But regardless of that, don't the people that live there have certain > rights, such as the right to choose their representation for a sovereign > government? Yes they do, but if they are attacking the citizens of another location, that other location has the right to stop the attacks. Again, I say that Israel would give it over to the palestinians if they would just live up to their signed agreements and stop the attacks. > > Again, when we tried to give it back all we got was the current oslo war. > > All? Or just the part where there were no concentrations of settlements > anyway? All as in all we got was the war, not all as in all the territory. No where does it say we have to give it all back. 242 says that we have the right to live in safe borders and should return land, but it specifically (very specifically) never said all. > > > And what will Israel do then? It's still at war with lebanon and its master syria. >There are still attacks over the UN declaired border on almost a daily basis. One >such attack that was observed by the UN resulted in the kidnapping of 3 israeli >citizens and the UNs response was to cover up their part in it all. > > But lets say that Israel pulls up all (or most) of the settlemenst and a >palestinian state comes into effect. They keep attacking Israel because that's the >'second step. Israel invades this terrorist nation and what will be the result? World >condomnation. All Israel wants is for the palestinian state to be created and not be >a threat. If the arabs (and I say all of them) can't stop killing Jews for just a >week, then how can we trust them to stop later? > > The problem is that Israel only occupied the territories and never made > the next obvious step. Annexate the territories, give everybody who > lives there citizenship and handle it internally. Israel has my blessing. And if they did that and the attacks still went on, what then? ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
