Jersusalem "off the table"

[Dill]

(01-31-2018, 04:55 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: I am well aware of reservations.   We have several around here and I have done business with them often over the yearsZ.  So yes my perception on reservations are certainly limited to my experiences here in south Florida.    

The powerful taking from the “innocent” has been happening the entire history of the world.    If you can’t defend what you have you will lose it.  

And I have made my position clear on the Palestinians.   Until they choose different leaders I really do not care what happens to them.   They reap what they sow and when you lay with dogs you get fleas.  If they choose more reasonable leadership then I will take a fresh look at the situation.   Outside of that I am pretty set.  

Arabs live in Israel already.   They are overwhelmingly Palestinian.   So I know they can live and thrive within an Israel state.

Israeli-Arabs don't "thrive" there. They are an ethnic minority in an ethnic state. And Israeli citizenship doesn't prevent their property from being appropriated too. Israeli laws are designed to favor Jewish over Arab citizens of Israel.

The purpose of law, state, national and international, is to prevent the powerful from taking from the innocent.  Now millions of innocent people DON'T lose their property because the law protects them.

If I steal your car and end in court, it will not be a suitable defense if I tell the judge that "taking from the innocent has been happening the entire history of the world and if Lucy can't defend what he has he will lose it."   The judge will decide that I have violated your rights, return your car, and put me in prison.  And that is the point of law--to stop what has been happening "the entire history of the world."

Your position on Palestinian leadership is still rather unclear to me. It is clear you don't like them. But it is not clear why you think they are terrorists or have behaved badly, as opposed to Israeli leadership.   Also, even if they did behave badly, that would give Israel no legal right to take the land of their people, any more than if you behave badly it gives me the right to take your car.

Israel behaving badly doesn't lower them in your estimation.  double standard.