Re: My objections -- that the Israeli-Palestinian fight is about territory, not religion, and that it was the Palestinians who rejected what appeared to be a good peace offer from then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak two years ago - were discounted.
That's quite a captious statement.... The Mideast conflict is indeed about "territory" as far as the Palestinians are concerned --after all, they've been dwelling the whole area, including Israel, for generations and, suddenly, got pushed around by Europeans of Jewish persuasion. They just want their homeland back. Now, from the European settlers' viewpoint, it's a different ballgame: remember that, originally, the Zionists set a shortlist of half a dozen countries that might be suitable for a "Jewish homeland"... Patagonia (Argentina) and Uganda were among them. Why did they finally pick Palestine, were it not for "religion"? |
