Don't want to have any of those 1.5 million "terrorists" confined to 78% of Gaza trying to kick out those 6000 "settlers" in 19 settlements.
Hmm... so now you're blaming the Israelis for the explosive birth rate of the Palestinians?
Life must not have been too bad if they were able to sustain 3% birth rates and increase their populations at such a rate in those nasty refugee camps.
But the more interesting question is that, given they STILL have this fantastic birth rate, what will they be demanding 30 years from now (if not sooner)?? "Oh.. we can't manage to live on 100% of the Gaza strip so we want some of Israel now"...
I wonder how much geographic space the 20% of the Israeli population, who are Arab/Palestinian, take up?
Should the Jews be able to say, "Hey... It's getting too crowded here... We don't have enough room for all of those Arabs now.. We're going to expel them from the country"...???
When you make such statements Don, you might want to switch the parties around and see if the logic still works. If the Palestinians can "kick out" Jewish settlers, what prevents the same logic from being applied to the 1 million muslim citizens of Israel?
The bottom line is that under the original plans for the British Mandate, under which there was a geographic allocation for a Palestinian partition, Jews were supposed to be permitted to settle in the West Bank and Gaza. In fact, they should have been able to settle in what is now Jordan, but the British gave that land to the Hashemite Arabs.
Talk of kicking any ethnic or racial group out of ANY territory in the region is counter-productive and laden with potential retaliatory repercussions against their own population. The Israelis might turn all of their Arab citizens into refugees, and force them to live in the new Palestinian state. (I doubt they would do this, but events are beginning to transcend logic and constitutional civil rights).
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