Originally posted by: Jhhnn
yea, like when a palestinian sniper shot a 10 month old settler baby in the head. no mercy.....
Link that up, OK? reminds me of the Kuwaiti incubator stories, later proven false... The massacres at sabra and shatilla were definitely real, otoh. Oh, yeh, Sharon's forces didn't do the actual killing, they just made sure it would happen- "I didn't rape her, I just held her down for the other guys."
It's not uninhabited land, not at all. The palestinians use it for grazing and farming. If anything, Israeli settlers have chosen to occupy and defend some of the better land in the West Bank, particularly land with water resources... and their government has encouraged it, made it possible with various legal machinations... Some of it is rather sparsely populated, given that the occupants fled for their lives when the israeli army came in...
There will be no peace as long as the settlers and the likudniks espouse the concept of greater Israel- it's obviously contrary to the whole notion of peace. Given that the apparent majority of Israelis insist on a Jewish rather than a secular state, partition is the only answer. The Geneva agreement would probably provide that, not that the current american or israeli admin's will touch it with a pole...
And, uhh, cut the anti-semite name-calling. The guilt trip is wearing thin, and equating the state of israel with all jews everywhere does many jews a disservice. They're not all conniving Zionist zealots intent of fulfilling biblical prophecy thru conquest and subjugation... neither are all israelis, either.
By and large, Palestinians are Semites, too... moreso than many of the europeanized jews in israel, for that matter...