01-29-2018, 05:02 PM
(01-29-2018, 03:57 PM)Dill Wrote: Human rights are not "hypotheticals." Either you respect and affirm them or you do not.
If you think that all people are born with equal rights, regardless of race, religion or ethnicity, then you cannot justify one ethnic group taking the land and homes of another by force.
If you think that some ethnic groups have rights that others do not, then it makes sense to defend them when they take what belongs to others. Your take on the Palestinians is consistent with the latter, not the former. It is bad if some Palestinians in Gaza elect terrorists to lead them, but not bad if Israelis elect terrorists.
You say the Palestinians, whose land has been taken, cannot find "common ground" with the people who took their land and won't give it back. This is like saying that a mugging victim deserves to be mugged if he can't talk the mugger into handing back some of his money.
Your solution to Palestinian loss of land is to let the Israelis take the rest by force. And you say Palestinians deserve to be robbed this way.
Look. I am tired of negotiations going nowhere on a two state solution. Israel has given in to almost every demand for only hamas to come up with more demands. The fact is Abbas or hamas doesn’t want peace because they know that will include them no longer being in power. They want to stay the status quo where they get our money to let their people be human shields and live in shanty towns.
It’s clear the only solution is a one a state solution an Israel state. They will at least build up the area as they are doing in the settlements. The Palestinians are the only people who get upset at their neighboring country building up the land next to them. I wish we had Israel on our southern border.
As for your human rights comment. I don’t want anyone to die. But I think it’s time to let everyone know that we are moving to an Israel one state and you can either petition to join peacefully or leave. If you stay and become a problem then you will be subjected to force. I said the comment of letting them fight it out because I know the leaders of the palestianians would never walk away from their golden goose. The Palestinian people only have themselves to blame as they elect terrorists and allow people like Abbas to get control who are criminals.
