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So what's your prescription, doctor?
Mine is for Israel to get out of OT and let everyone in the area have self-determination without interference.
My prescription is a back to the egg proposal and is for both the mind and body's ailments in this I/P event.
Israel is still in a state of war declared by the Arabs of Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinians who have no country and have admitted it is only virtual. An e-country, as it were ... a wish. Good. The Jews had their wish too and it has been fulfilled.
I digress. Even though the Palestinians were offered a country along with Israel in 1948, they refused the country, opting out to align with the Arab bordering countries to declare war on the fledgling State of Israel.
Now they started many wars and Israel has won those wars. Israel has maintained a peace with both Jordan and Egypt although the outlying areas of both are militant Palestinian havens. No, I'm not talking about the refugees who are kept in camps in order to keep the dream of there being a true Palestinian identity alive. Good for them. I understand this desire to keep their identity alive as well. Just in case they (along with their Arab brethren supporters in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and the non physically aligned Arab states wish to keep theirs alive.
When the Turkish Ottoman Empire faded, the French and British redrew the Arena in order to create countries out of massive partitions of non aligned lands.
This was also the state of the "Palestine Partition" of which ~78% was granted to Trans-Jordan by the British.
I don't see an outcry over in Jordan about the land that was 'stolen'. This is because it wasn't stolen. It was granted by Empiric reorder.
The partitioning brought the creation of the modern Arab world and the Republic of Turkey. The League of Nations granted France mandates over Syria and Lebanon and granted the United Kingdom mandates over Mesopotamia (later Iraq,) and Palestine, (later divided into Palestine and Transjordan). The Ottoman Empire's possessions on the Arabian Peninsula became the Kingdom of Hejaz and the Sultanate of Nejd (today Saudi Arabia), the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, and the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.
Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
This is why the Palestinians refuse to negotiate unless it is negotiations from a win position which is not negotiation and that's just not happening.
So, if the Palestinians and their other Arab war declarers want peace, they must first stop their declared war. Israel has no responsibility to take care of the Palestinians since they are still in a state of declared war even though they've lost the battles and have declared themselves the winners. Israel's peaceful borders are now outlaw badlands where the Palestinians and their other Arab supporters have setup base and war camps along with full tunnel systems and from which rockets are fired pretty consistently. Some seem to think that because these rockets don't kill people (well, as much as some would like) that they can minimize the attacks.
Prescription? I'm no doctor but I say this to all Palestinians and their Arab war declarers who ask what needs to be done.
Get to the negotiation table... and negotiate in good faith as a people who have lost the war and could have had their state simply by saying yes when the Jews said yes.
^Rx (negotiations from reality based positions.)
Or continue the still declared war which will likely result like the previous ones.
Which means much more dead on all sides of the divides.
^^ Dx (insanity, wish fulfillment or the Hand of G-d notwithstanding)
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