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Published:
January 7, 2012
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
I have strong links to Israel, and hope for peace, as do many. Obstacles are not only confined to the unwillingness to negotiate on the Palestinian side, but the reasons for this. Settlements, towns, villages, in the West Bank continue to be the key stumbling block to negotiations, and always the first hurdle. Perhaps another freeze is necessary, this time implemented, to make the negotiation table more welcoming. In terms of inhabitable space, suggestions that the West Bank is 'roomy' are the same as suggesting the Negev is roomy, or the North. In essence, the 'right of return' would eventually have to encompass Arab refugees if a 2-state solution is decided upon. However uninhabitable the land, both sides need as much space as they can get, so who's right?
It's obvious who's "right."
The Arabs have 26 Muslim countries in which to spread out. The Jews have a sliver of land, one-thousandth the size of Arab holdings. Whether you cut a pizza into 8 or 12 slices, it's still the same amount of pizza - only so much to go around. So it's not that the Arabs need the land (the Jews do). Psychologically, Arabs can't stand Jews ruling any "sacred Muslim lands." That's why even the "moderate" Palestinian leaders tell their people in Arabic that a two-state solution is only stage one of the grand plan of eliminating all of Israel. Settlements are not a stumbling block to negotiations - they are an excuse to avoid negotiations.
They want all the banks...
Excellent illustration
This video exposes the lies of Palestinian propaganda. Most people don't realize the tiny amount of land actually in dispute. The problem is not that the Jews live on so much land. The problem (as seen by Muslims) is Jewish hegemony over any land Muslims ever controlled (even if that land was originally stolen from Jews).