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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (144710)4/11/2002 1:38:09 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1576323
 
>Z, my understanding it that there are more than soldiers living in the West Bank and Gaza settlements.

Which is right. There are. They established real towns so they could permanently station soldiers there and keep the conflict away from Israel proper.

>I don't think that's correct.....according to the link below, there are 176k+ Israelis living in the West Bank

Actually, the number's closer to 200K. However, they're not counted as citizens, and they can't vote. Note that there are parties for just about everything in the Israeli Parliament, but no Settler Party.

>And why would the Israeli gov't allow Israelis to settle on the land that is supposed to be the basis for the Palestinian nation? That does not seem to be in the realm of good faith negotiations.

Because until the 1990s, it wasn't earmarked to be Palestinian land. It wasn't going to be given away. Eventually, a land for peace movement arose among the Israelis.

>Shouldn't the PLO have some authority over this issue?

No. Under the Oslo accords, the PA (not the PLO, there's a distinction) was given control of the Arab areas in the West Bank and Gaza, and the condition was that if they went a few years and showed that they were living peacefully and governing without allowing terror, they were to get the whole thing. However, that didn't happen.

-Z
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