Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (192987)	7/25/2006 12:53:56 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

20% of Israel's population (all citizens with voting rights) are Arab Muslims. I know the Arab population is large, but I thought it was primarily Arab Christians. Whatever. My point is that if the Israelis encouraged more Arab Muslim immigration to Israel and changed the country's name so that it didn't have religious connotations which alienates the surrounding 500 million Muslims, logic indicates the state would be less and less offensive to its neighbors (a good thing). The problem you fail to mention is that neither Fatah, or Hamas wants to permit Jews to live in a Palestinian state, even as citizens. So implement things which make the country more appealing to the average neighbor, and make Hamas and Fatah's extremist position less appealing. As the winner of every war, they've gotta make the peace at some point in their future. They claim peace is what they want. To sell land to a Jew has been a capitol offense (execution) for decades and it has not changed. It was that way when Jordan ruled the West Bank and the PA carried on that tradition. Interesting. So who owns the land where the settlements are located? Anyway, these are just immoral laws that can be changed. So maybe when the Palestinian government permits Jews to live on the West Bank, under Palestinian law and as Palestinian citizens with full protections, this whole problem will be solved. Preferably the Pal government and Israeli government would become one government (and one land). Partitioning the land along ethnic/religious lines is the cause of 60 years of war. Putting it back together is a good solution. Integration would take years (a la generations), but the result has greater possibility for peace than the current endless cycle of violence.