The US just recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital

[Dill]

(12-08-2017, 01:05 PM)Vlad Wrote: Dill knowledgeable on this subject perhaps, but not forthright. 
The points Dill makes are inconsequential and a waste of board space when Palestinians and the various sects cannot come to a consensus regarding Israel's right to exist.
Dill refuses to come to terms with that.

 
The Israelis, who have deprived Palestinians of their homeland, cannot come to a consensus on whether any Palestinian state has a right to exist. (Many want to simply seize the West Bank and cede Gaza to Egypt.) But your double standard gives them a pass. 

Above I state:

The PLO recognized Israel's right to exist; then Israel moved the goal posts, Netanyahu demanding they recognize the "Jewish character" of the state.

How is that not "forthright"?  What, exactly, have I refused to come to terms with?

(12-08-2017, 01:05 PM)Vlad Wrote: The last time I looked Israel has no right to exist.
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2017/april/p-a-factions-agree-israel-has-no-right-to-exist

In 1988, the PLO recognized the Partition Resolution of 1947 (UNGA Res. 181) in the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which is to say they implicitly recognized Israel's legal status as a nation under international law.
http://www.mideastweb.org/plc1988.htm

The link below is to the 1993 letters exchanged between Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and PLO Chairman Arafat concerning the PLO's recognition of Israel's right to exist as a state and Israel's recognition of the PLO as the official representative of the Palestinian people.
https://israelipalestinian.procon.org/sourcefiles/1993-Exchange-Letters-Rabin-Arafat.pdf

It was this mutual recognition which allowed the Oslo Accords to move forward. The PLO had to recognize the existence of Israel in order to negotiate and sign treaties with it.

(12-08-2017, 01:05 PM)Vlad Wrote: I'm no expert on this subject but what I do know is that Israel remains as a state that has no right to exist, and that many attempts have been made to grant Palestine a state...and rejected by the Palestinians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U

No state or people is required by any international law to recognize any other state's "right to exist." The U.S. has never formally recognized the right of France or Mexico or Japan to "exist."  States may demand this recognition from themselves, from their own citizens.  The worldwide exception to this state of affairs is Israel, which demands this recognition from the non-citizens it holds under occupation, along with the recognition of Israel's right to the land it has taken from them.

One of the principle creators of division among Palestinians at present is the fact that recognition of Israel has not brought the expected progress. The settlements go forward on the West Bank. The walls continue to be built.