Israel will tell the US what solution it wants...niksativa said:Until the US wants a solution there won't be one - but what kind of a solution would work best? Interested to hear your thoughts....
Israel will tell the US what solution it wants...niksativa said:Until the US wants a solution there won't be one - but what kind of a solution would work best? Interested to hear your thoughts....
wibble wibble. You can shit on all you like. There's still up to 4 million people directly suffering as a result of their or their forefathers' ethnic cleansing upon israel's formation. That just ain't gonna go awaylikesfish said:people are talking like in 1948 Israel just decided to evict every Arab they could![]()
didn't exactly happen like that there was a war with the stated intention of making israel cease to exist.
the people pushing for the one state solution seem to be the people backing the losing side israel is still in a position of strength.
Israeli's are ment to give up there state disarm and rely on the arabs good intentions for peace![]()
I really see them voting for that two states shed load of cash for the refugees and some deal over Jerusalem that I could see being doable
.mears said:We absorb immigrants in the west all the time
Muslim countries keep the Palestinians in squalid camps and deny them basic rights. Look at Lebanon (a muslim, christian state) and Egypt's treatment of Palestinians. There is simply no excuse for this behavior from middle east countries.

laptop said:Oh do fuck off. It acknowledges the existence of gravity, of rain and of the state of Israel. What it doesn't acknowledge is "Israel's 'right' to exist" - which to a Palestinian is equivalent to say "driving Grandma off her land at gunpoint was right."
See "What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians", Christian Science Monitor.
Meanwhile, more on-topic, I'd have said a one-state solution with the acquiescence of the Jewish population of Israel was improbable. But weird shit is happening:
E2A: Utterly bizarre interview with Burg in Ha'aretz: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/868385.html:
bendeus said:.
There is a world of difference between immigrants and refugees. I'm not even going to bother elucidating them for you, though. Google it if needs be.
That's right. It's all Muslim countries' fault that 1,000,000 Palestinian refugees are living in penury in their countries. Egypt, Jordan and Syria should have just absorbed them, with all the wads of cash they have to develop the necessary infrastructure to accomodate all those have nots on their doorsteps.
While they're at it, maybe Sudan should do the same for all the Eritrean refugees living in camps in their territory, Tunisia for the Western Saharans, and Chad for the Darfurians. Maybe America would step in and house, educate and medically treat all the Iraqis they've displaced over the last decade or so as well, just like they did for the Vietnamese![]()
mears said:And you justify their behavior, that is pathetic.
mears said:a country can't have negotiations with an entity that doesn't believe it has a right to exist.
Peet said:Palestinians are mostly tribal arabs
laptop said:And this profound assessment is based on what contact, knowledge, experience or even reading?
Peet said:Palestinians are mostly tribal arabs, not that dissimilar to Saudis in term of culture. Look what happened when the saudis were given vast sums of money. They squandered it.
laptop said:And this profound assessment is based on what contact, knowledge, experience or even reading?
Peet said:Pryce-Jones - The Closed Circle.
Good point. So why should Palestinians negotiate with a state that ethnically cleansed them from their land, that didn't even accept they existed as people?mears said:Exactly, a country can't have negotiations with an entity that doesn't believe it has a right to exist. Its a non-starter, its something you can't get past.
Spion said:Good point. So why should Palestinians negotiate with a state that ethnically cleansed them from their land, that didn't even accept they existed as people?
Peet said:To an extent it is. But it doesn't changed the fact that when the oil runs out and Arabia becomes an irellevance once more, they have built nothing that will endure.
warren said:If they don't negotiate the Palestinians will get nothing. Right now Israel is more powerful and might rules.
bendeus said:And that's all that counts eh, Warren?
warren said:Well thats how the World works matey. Like it or not. If the roles were reversed and Palestinians were in the position of the Israelis, what do you think would happen then?
Then there would be a viable one-state solution then as all Israelis (including the non-Zionist ultra-orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs would be dead.
bendeus said:So the Arabs are genetically and/or culturally genocidal murderers then?
warren said:Hamas and Fatah would do that. I did not mention Arabs.
bendeus said:You certainly implied it though, didn't you?
Excellent that you continue to be a troll at the pleasure of the moderators, though. Kind of like a rabid but somehow loveable pet.
warren said:No I did not imply it in the slightest. What I implied is that the armed forces of the Palestinians would massacre all the Israelis. Do you think this would nothappen?
bendeus said:Why would they, Warren?