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One State Solution

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...
 
people are talking like in 1948 Israel just decided to evict every Arab they could:rolleyes:
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:rolleyes:
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
 
likesfish said:
people are talking like in 1948 Israel just decided to evict every Arab they could:rolleyes:
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:rolleyes:
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
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 away
 
mears said:
We absorb immigrants in the west all the time
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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.

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.

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 :rolleyes:
 
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:

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.
 
bendeus said:
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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 :rolleyes:

And you justify their behavior, that is pathetic.
 
so the idf have 168 000 active troops and could field up to a million armed citizens unless they think theres something in it for them theres no chance at all :(
it foolish to suggest the pals have a right to return and the Israelis just to have to take it.
when they have the upper hand militarily and no confidence that if they give any ground there be any more secure than they are now.
w.i.t.f.m. applies
expecting people to give up their right to exist voluntarily especially when the other side has attempted to use military force to destroy them is not going to happen.
Never again isn't an empty slogan.
its the same fiction the provos tried in 1973 that the british state was going to surrender to them 200 gunmen against 30000 troops how was that supposed to happen then?
 
Mears, for want of an argument, merely restates the demand:

mears said:
a country can't have negotiations with an entity that doesn't believe it has a right to exist.

China negotiated with Nixon!
 
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. The society that was built there was built with the work of expat labour and slave labour from the indian subcontinent.

If the palestinians had been given the same amount of money there's very little to suggest they would have invested it in anything substatial for the simple reason they have never had the trapping of civil society to emulate it.

It is for this reason a one state solution could not work. They would wreck it in less than a decade and be in the same position they're in now.
 
a greater israel from the red sea to the euphrates is the solution to all the worlds problems, the zionist could shut up and the americans could piss off.

It would become a new continent called (not sure yet)
 
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.

And there's me thinking that they had invested so heavily in the US that the American economy is partially dependent on their patronage.

Ho hum
 
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.
 
laptop said:
And this profound assessment is based on what contact, knowledge, experience or even reading?

Probably the reading of something which includes an argument about "near-empty land" and the like.
 
Peet said:
Pryce-Jones - The Closed Circle.

Or, to give it it's full name "The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs".

The clue is in the title. The book is an interpretive look at stories and occurrences, all of which are filtered through what comes across as condescension toward the Arabs.

Read it, gave it away to a charity shop where it was still languishing on the shelf a couple of months later when I went in again.
 
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.
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?
 
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?

If they don't negotiate the Palestinians will get nothing. Right now Israel is more powerful and might rules.

Many Palestinians were evacuated by the Arab forces and promised once they conquered Israel they could return. Many other Palestinians were also irreqular fighters against Israel - that is why many were expelled. While it is inexcusable that innocent civilian Palestinians were expelled or massacred many were also fighting Israel. You will noticed there is still a very large population of Arabs in Israel, contary to many Arab countries were most Jews have been expelled.

You have also blamed Israelis for the actions of their ancestors. Does that mean you also blame German citizens for the actions of the Nazis?
 
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.

Arguably by gaining a stake in the economy of the world's only superpower, they have ensured longevity for their houses at least. Not exactly squandering their wealth then, is it?
 
bendeus said:
And that's all that counts eh, Warren?

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.
 
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.

So the Arabs are genetically and/or culturally genocidal murderers then?
 
warren said:
Hamas and Fatah would do that. I did not mention Arabs.

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.
 
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.

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?
 
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?

Why would they, Warren?
 
Didn't you say that the armed forces of the Palestinians would go around massacring every Israeli?

Why would they do that?
 
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