They illegally seized from the palestinians? Wrong. It was owned by jordan.
No, I mean private land owned by individuals. Like you own your own house. Approx a third of the settlements have been built on private land illegally seized from the owners.
There were no palestinians there.
There were quite a few, actually. Even the Israelis have dropped Golda's silly "there are no Palestinians" line.
After Israel was attacked by every single country surrounding it (illegally I might add), Israel kicked their asses.
Well, actually Israel launched the attack against Egypt. But that's a bit beside the point. The vast majority of the Palestinians in the West Bank were not even born when Israel began the military occupation.
After that Israel has tried every measure available to compromise with the palestinians. Time and time again Israel went out of their way to try to give the palestines what they wanted.
Don't be silly. Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza and saw an opportunity to exploit the population for the good of Israel. Here's part of an editorial by Yossi Sarid, who was an Israeli Knesset (parliament) member for most of the 70s and 80s:
Many years ago, before the first intifada, Palestinian acquaintances from Ramallah asked me for help. They wanted permission to put up a cucumber pickling factory in their town. They asked the authorities and received no reply. I promised to help. Why not? They would invest and employ a few dozen people and make a profit. I turned to the Civil Administration and I was also turned away.
"Are you crazy?" they asked me in the administration, "If they put up their factory, our entire pickling industry will go bankrupt." The occupation isn't even ready to give up pickling.
I understood then; how could one not understand the entire colonialist doctrine as it stood on one foot before me. That is colonialism in all its calculated and malicious parasitism
I don't think you'll find many Israelis who will claim with a straight face that Israel tried everything to compromise with the Palestinians.
But the Palestines don't want anything but the blood of every jew.
Every Palestinian wants the blood of every Jew? Don't be silly.
In fact, if I was president, I'd tell Israel to do whatever they wanted.
That's pretty much what Bush has done. The problem for Israel is there is little more they can do. They have pushed the Palestinians to the edge of mass starvation, they have blockaded them, wrecked their economy, killed hundreds in retaliation. It hasn't worked.
It won't work, either. The world community, and the Israelis themselves, are not prepared to see a holocaust in Gaza or the West Bank. Life cannot get much worse for the Palestinians. If the stick fails, then the carrot is all that's left.
But of course, it will always be hard to convince an anti-semitist like you that the jews don't eat the hearts out of innocent palestinian infants.
Doesn't deserve comment.
