Billo_Really
Litre of the Band
Your position say's that it was okay for Hitler to annex Poland.Negotiations can't even begin, until Israel ends their aggression against the Palestinian's. The first step is Israel's. They need to end the occupation, the blockade, dismantle those illegal settlements and hawl those psycho-jewish insurgents back to Israel. They also need to get rid of all those checkpoints and roadblocks in the West Bank. Then, and only then, can they negotiate peace that would be beneficial for both sides.There is a third option. If the Palestinian Arabs continue to stonewall negotiations Israel can unilaterally annex those portions of the West Bank it wants to keep and leave it up to the Palestinian Arabs what they want to do with what is left. Proposals along these lines have been coming up over the last few months with the amount of land Israel would keep ranging from Barak's recent suggestion of the major blocs of West Bank Israeli communities as well as all of Jerusalem and land along the border with Jordan to annexing most or all of Area C and making the 50,000 or so Palestinian Arabs there Israeli citizens.
And no, there isn't a "3rd option". Your "option" is illegal. You cannot acquire land by force. And an occupational authority, is only a caretaker, that will never become an owner. Israel has it's land and needs to allow the Palestinian's inherent right for self-determination. And they also need to stop treating the Palestinian's like they're sub-human.
Negotiations can begin at any time both sides decide it is better to talk about differences than fight about them or pout and whine about them. Israel is ready to talk about differences but the West Bank Palestinian Arab government prefers to pout and whine about them and the Gaza government prefers to (mostly talk) about fighting.
There would be nothing illegal about Israel annexing parts of the West Bank. What international law theres is comes from treaties and conventions concerning conflicts among states and these do not apply to the West Bank. Technically, the West Bank is an unincorporated remnant of the former League of Nations Protectorate and while various nations, groups and individuals may have opinions and preferences about what should be done with it, none of these have the force of law.
The disposition of the West Bank is a decision to be made by Israel alone according to what it believes is in its own best national interests. These interests, of course, include how it deals with the Palestinian Arab population in the West Bank, its relations with its neighbors, its allies and with other nations it has relations with, and while inputs from all these sources and others may be important, no other nation, organization or individual has a legal or even legitimate right to try to force an outcome.
The last time that was legal, 20 million people eventually lost their lives.
Israel is a member state of the United Nations. They are duty bound to honor the UN charter and IHL. If you think there are reasons not treat people humanely......well, I'll stop there, this isn't the forum for what I'd like to say to you next.