Supporting the two state solution and calling for pragmatic leadership on both sides is akin to telling the Palestinians to shut up and enjoy occupation (except Gaza, they get a crippling blockade instead). Too much land has been settled for a Palestine state to be viable and leadership on both sides know it. Israel is convinced that they can perpetually occupy and Palestinians are convinced that someone will care at some point in the future and force Israel's hand. I personally think Israel is correct |
Meanwhile let’s see what a future republicans White House will look like:
https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-names-pro-hitler-065345066.html |
Do I need to start pulling the quotes? Or would you prefer to post some quotes by Arab/Palestinian leaders demonstrating a different strategic objective? |
I'm afraid you're correct. That's why I used the term "wish" rather than "solution". |
Why can't they reject it? Is it a dictatorial edict? Why can't Arabs have an opinion? Of course most Jewish groups accepted it - why wouldn't they? |
Cool, the terrorists associated with the state and later absorbed into that state don't count. I guess Lexington and Concord weren't really acts of war since there were no state actors on the American side |
LOL only if you do a side-by-side with quotes by the Zionist leaders indicating the entire Eretz Israel was always the objective, even if you had to agree to an interim solution in the interim. |
An opinion, sure. Launching a war of annihilation to overturn a UN resolution partitioning territory? Frowned upon and an act of war. |
Fair point, but the fact remains that one side acted on those aims. We'll never know what Israeli leadership at the time would have done in response to 181. |
Stretching it a bit far, I'd say. Fact is, state actors on one side at least nominally accepted 181. State actors on the other side launched a war with the express aim of rejecting 181 and annhilating their opponents. |
Well no, the other side has been acting on these aims every since. And succeeding! |
So you think history would have played out exactly the same way had the Palestinians and Arabs not rejected 181 and launched the way? It's possible, but I think unlikely. |
Can you please give me the exact quotes from Ward and McKay? |
| Nakba day was not originally anti-Semitic - it was a commemoration of the displacement of Palestinians, and was marked by Palestinians in Israel. However, in recent years, predictably, it has disintegrated into regular old anti-Semitism. |
Right because any criticism of Israel is antisemitic. |