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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (116862)10/14/2003 10:32:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The Wall is being built on land owned by Arabs, not Israelis

That premise is false. Land ownership in Israel/Palestine is an extremely complex and vexed question, owing to the fact that 80% of the land has been government-owned since the days of the Ottoman Empire. You cannot just make a claim like that.

Second, Israel will exercise the right of eminent domain where national security is involved (as would any other country), as it is in the case of trying to wall off a defensible border so that Israelis cannot be blown up in restaurants and buses anymore. If Israelis weren't being blown up in restaurants and buses, the wall would not be necessary.

You keep making claims that you don't criticize Palestinian suicide bombers because no one here is defending them, but your continual ignoring of the very real threats Israel faces, and continual criticism of everything Israel does in fighting the intifada, amounts to a de facto defense. Criticizing only one side in a war amounts to rooting for the other.
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