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Will the new generetion in Gaza want peace? Maybe not.

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    #62
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    Also, you seem to ignore that although dispossession and colonizing unfortunately continue in the West Bank, the Abbas governments less-hostile approach has led to an increase in living standards for the palestinian citizens of the West Bank and an increase in economic activity

    So what?

    Living standards for slaves increased in the US - does that make slavery any less nasty?

    What a pathetic attempt to sugar coat the colonization of the W.B. and the apartheid conditions under which the Palestinians live.


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    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    There was a PLO in 1967, attacking Israel from Jordan, which had been occupying the West Bank since 1948. The Jordanians would finally get fed up with the PLO terrorists and went all Black September on them a few years later. ".

    ....a situation where one party becomes outnumbered overnight by another in its own country is never going to end well.
    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    Regarding Gaza, it wasn't "fanaticism" that influenced the Israeli pullout from Gaza, it was a political act from Ariel Sharon, if Israel had wanted the dismal uneconomic land of Gaza, it would have stayed there. The West Bank has much more productive land so is more attractive to settle, I'm not justifying it btw, just calling it as it is. ".

    The difficulty in providing security played its part in the territories being considered unsustainable as viable colonies.
    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    Also, you seem to ignore that although settlement activities unfortunately continue in the West Bank, the Abbas governments less-hostile approach has led to an increase in living standards for the palestinian citizens of the West Bank and an increase in economic activity whereas Hamas's approach has led to the exact opposite in Gaza, aside from an increase in black market activity from which Hamas garners "taxes".

    So they're a better paid subjugated sub-class in their own land. Thats nice to know.


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    #64
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Patrick Cleburne wrote: »
    Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people. A Jewish state for a Jewish people. They are fully entitled to defend themselves and the land.


    Unfortunately its what they do outside their borders in terms of aggressive action that constitutes the problem.


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