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In response to
"The point being that the land that is now disputed was captured after Israel's great neighbors decided to once again try and destroy it."
by
Stephen
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It's countries that fight wars, and people get caught in the middle.
Posted by
Roger More (aka RogerMore)
Oct 15 '10, 10:54
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My POV is that people shouldn't think so much about history and who started what, but about what to do going forward.
You're not going to have peace in the region without a negotiated solution.
Everyone knows what a negotiated solution will (more or less) look like - a Palestinian state comprising the West Bank and Gaza, with the border between Israel and Palestine set more or less around the 1947 borders, with some land swaps to allow Israel to keep land that it has built some settlements close to the 1947 borders - but not the ones that are far away. Maybe a Pslestinian capital in E Jerusalem and maybe not. No right of return for Palestinians to Israeli territory.
This is (generally speaking) how the people on both sides who are willing to negotiate agree it will look.
New Israeli settlements pre-empt the negotiating process, because who wants to deal with someone who changes the rules as you are going along?
I don't have any sympathy for Hamas (of course) but I do for ordinary Palestinians - as well as (obviously) ordinary Israelis who have to live with rocket attacks etc.
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