Israel has a million excuses and none of them are valid. But the biggest new line of total bogus snake oil on this thread is that if the Palestinians quit their protests, that then and only then will Israel give them their land back.
That has never worked in world history and won't work today. Look at American civil rights for the blacks after the civil war. For 15 years, right after the civil war, blacks had at least theoretical full rights. Then in a compromise between democrats and republicans, to solve a disputed presidential election, the American South obtained a free hand to pass Jim Crow civil rights law that became the law of the land in the American South. But Black Protesters, both violent and non violent kept the issue simmering, obtaining victories in the 1954 Brown v board of education, and Truman's desegregation of the US military. And it snowballed from there, and exploded in 1960.
Yet JEDIY would have us believe, that Jim Crow died because the South volutarily was rewarding the blacks and taking them off probation.
Or we could look at the Vietnamese people who had a 3000 year history of ALWAYS resisting foreign domination. As they really got punished in the last 200 years for their behavior. First the French came and colonized them, then the Japs came and kicked out the French, then the French came back, and it least North Vietnam was independent. Then when the French got beat violently at Dien Bien Foo, it finally looked like Vietnam would finally achieve reunification, after a 200 plus year struggle. But no Uncle Sucker got in, it took the Vietnamese another almost 2 decades of violent and constant struggle to finally achieve independence. And JediY will have us believe it was a reward for Vietnamese complacency.
Or we could look at India, Algeria, South Africa, the Former British colonies that became the USA, and almost everywhere else in the world, and see that winning independence and self determination requires struggle against the injustice of a foreign domination. And that foreign power will use military force to keep its illegal gains. Which is exactly what is now happening in the post 1967 expansion of Israel past its legal boundaries.
Ore we can look what happened at Annapolis in 2008, As Israel refused to deal with Hamas because it violently resisted Israel. But when it came to Fatah in the West Bank, who had renounced violence against Israel, Israel would not reward Fatah with any concession either. So there goes the Israeli argument, when put to the reality test.
Now its 2011, Israel still refuses to make a single concession to Fatah and the PLO, and Israeli instead punishes a complacent West Bank with continuing Israeli settlement.
But while Bozo Netanyuhu thinks he a a genius for false propaganda, and has everyone fooled, he fails to note that the demand for a Palestinian state has reached critical mass, and world sympathy is rapidly moving to the Palestinian people.
Those two things, JEDIY almost always signals in eminent demise of a status qoa. Reaching critical mass and gaining world sympathy. Exactly How events play out in that death spiral swan song are mere variables, only the final outcomes of Israel returned to its 1967 borders is certain.
IMHO, smart people all over the world are hoping people of good will on all sides are looking beyond trying to find ways to have a peaceful mid-east for Israelis. Muslems, and Christians.
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