In January of 1976 the Arab states offered a permanent two state solution at the Security Council based on pre-'67 borders with minor and mutual modifications. Israel refused to attend the session, and the US vetoed the resolution.
Is that because there's more money in stealing your neighbors land and water?
Hmm, Georgie seems to be obsessed with money. Maybe he should get a better job. Meanwhile, I wonder if Georgie can tell us why the Palestinians weren't clamoring for a state when the Egyptians and Jordanians were administering these territories. Look at how all the years passed when they said nothing about establishing a state of their own. Could it be that they felt they didn't need a state as long as the Egyptians and Jordanians were in charge, but when Israel started administering the territories, they couldn't bear the thought that it was the Jews who were in charge?
Any thoughts on why the US vetoed the '76 Arab peace proposal?
Same reason Israel didn't bother to attend the session, maybe.
Sounds like the Arabs got no partners in the search for peace.
I'm not obsessing over money as much as I'm confused about why gutless draft dodgers like Cheney, Bush and Clinton are allowed to profit from the deaths of heroes like Pat Tillman. Maybe you can explain that?
Palestinians weren't protesting prior to '67 to same extent they are today because Egyptians and Jordanians weren't killing their children for sport:
"It is still. The camp waits, as if holding its breath. And then, out of the dry furnace air, a disembodied voice crackles over a loudspeaker.
"'Come on, dogs,' the voice booms in Arabic. 'Where are all the dogs of Khan Younis? Come! Come!'
"I stand up. I walk outside the hut. The invective continues to spew: 'Son of a *****!' 'Son of a whore!' 'Your mother's ****!'
"The boys dart in small packs up the sloping dunes to the electric fence that separates the camp from the Jewish settlement. They lob rocks toward two armored jeeps parked on top of the dune and mounted with loudspeakers.
"Three ambulances line the road below the dunes in anticipation of what is to come.
"A percussion grenade explodes. The boys, most no more than ten or eleven years old, scatter, running clumsily across the heavy sand. They descend out of sight behind a sandbank in front of me. There are no sounds of gunfire.
"The soldiers shoot with silencers.
"The bullets from the M-16 rifles tumble end over end through the children's slight bodies. Later, in the hospital, I will see the destruction:
the stomachs ripped out, the gaping holes in limbs and torsos..."
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered—death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo—but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport."
A Gaza Diary - by Chris Hedges