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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (97129)5/1/2003 10:26:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
From the viewpoint of the Palestinians, the Israelis have never "moved back or made any concession".

Oh really? What was Oslo, and handing over Gaza and Jericho and then the rest of Area A to PA control? Nine years of Palestinian self-government doesn't even count as a move back?

Also, you've got quite the wrong end of the stick on checkpoints. Before the first intifada in 1988, there wasn't even a marker on the Green Line. People moved back and forth freely. Checkpoints are the results of Palestinian efforts to kill Israelis, not the cause of them.

As for the whole indignation summed up by the word, "colonization", better check your definitions. The West Bank moved from British hands to Jordanian hands to Israeli hands after Jordan foolishly decided to attack in 1967. The land that you are waxing indignant about "colonizing" for the great part either belonged to the Jordanian government before 1967 or had been seized from Jewish owners in 1948. There is certainly a land battle going on and I sympathize with the hard lot of the Palestinians, even if their awful leadership is to blame for most of it. But don't expect me to share the Arab's indignation that any Jews want to settle on the East side of the Green Line - that line only became sacrosanct to them after their failure to destroy Israel in 1967 and 1973.
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