01-31-2018, 12:04 AM
(01-30-2018, 07:26 PM)Dill Wrote: Just two quick points, Lucy.
1. This is a hot button issue for both of us, obviously. But through it all, you have kept your cool and focused on the issues. Thanks for doing that. Your last post is your most substantive, I think.
2. I think we disagree on the history of negotiations. Palestinians have come to the table again and again, and as they are doing so, the Israelis keep taking their land and bulldozing their homes. If Israel wants to create a Greater Israel by absorbing the West Bank, then it is proceeding on schedule. The strategy is to keep building settlements while throwing impossible demands at the Palestinians. Then when they throw up their hands in frustration, the Israeli and US press speaks of Palestinian intransigence. Without US pressure on Israel, there simply is no motivation for Israel to cut any deal or stop settlements. The current state of Israel was wrenched from Palestinians by force, and now the West Bank is being assimilated piecemeal.
So the Palestinians do not have only themselves to blame if a more powerful military, with US assistance, takes away their land. In the words of MLK: Time to blame the robber, not the victim.
Yeah I get your concerns. I just don’t have any interest in supporting a group who chooses criminals and terrorists as their leaders. No matter what happens that area and those people are better when those leaders are out of power. Until then it’s irrelevant in my opinion. I just do not care about the Palestinians as they are set up now.
