Max90 > About 2.4 million Palestinians and 260,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war but stopped short of annexing.
I argue persistently that the stolen land, which is the bone of contention and the cause of the dispute in the MidEast, including what is known as the War on Terrorism, is of such little use to the state of Israel that it could be returned to its rightful owners -- and without Israel suffering any inconvenience. Indeed, the 260,000 settlers could easily be accommodated anywhere else in the rest of Israel. Meanwhile, the cost of this bit of land which houses the 260,000, mainly US and Russian immigrants, runs into billions and trillions of dollars, especially in military expenditure, and I'm not talking about the ruined lives and the unnecessary deaths because of the various "wars for Israel".
I also make the point that that stolen land has become, ironically, the most expensive piece of real estate on this earth and it would have been far cheaper if Israel had simply paid the Arabs for it rather than try to keep it illegally as a "trophy of war", thereby continuing the dispute, which now involves all the countries in the region and the US for generations to come. |
