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Originally Posted by CowboyTed
Most of Europe believe that Israel has a perfect right to live in the land which was given to them. This is the 1967 boarders. They have the right to do what they like as long as they stay inside international agreement on human rights and such...
Europe has a problem with them: - Expanding on the original land
- Illegal settlements
Palestinians are not living in Israel but Israelis are living in Palestine.
They do believe that if this area and Palestine could be given the right of existence as well then the job of fixing Palestine could start.
There is always going to be people who will say 'What idiots picked this piece of land for them to live in?...' Which is a fair point. But that is the past and there is no way that Israel can be moved now, We live in the here and now.
Separate point: Historically, Palestinians have a bigger claim to palestine than the jewish people. They only have the land of Israel for a very short time historically. But future of this area can't decided by the past but by the people today.
Question: Would it not be better for the UN peacekeeper (mainly EU troops) to control a demilitarization of the West bank and Gaza? They are experienced in nation building which Palestinians need. They could offer security and policing until palestine could get a more secure government which can manage itself... Israel could not need the IDF to sort out there problems. If Israel moved the back there settlers, Hamas's main sponsor Iran, has proposed to stop helping in cause violence (they also agreed to nuclear inspections) which would be a win - win for both sides (except the illegal settlers which have no right to be there anyway). |
Thanks for proving my point.
You see, I stated that both Palestinians and Jews have a historic right to the land. I didn't make any judgement on whether one has more of a historic right than the other.
But you simply couldn't do that.
You show your clear bias with your ridiculous claim that "historically" Palestinians have a bigger claim. But thanks anyway, I was hoping some biased poster would come along in order to illustrate why we tend to ignore this kind of biased, self-righteous drivel.
About those EU troops, we can see just how effective they are at keeping Hezbollah from arming themselves in southern Lebanon. Thanks for the offer, but I don't think any Israeli leader is going to invite any more EU troops to whine and bitch about Israel and sit and do nothing about the arms smuggling they were supposed to be stopping.