georgephillip
Diamond Member
Your link:Then when Egypt attacked Israel after the agreement, Israel the winners took more land to provide a bigger buffer against lying Arabs. Back when Arabfat was in power, Israel offered peace with a two state option, and Arabfat said no. You cant make peace with Demons who will strap bombs to women and children and march them into crowed shopping areas and blow up everyone.
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Arafat didn't negotiate - he just kept saying no
Ever since the start of the second Palestinian intifada, a row has raged over who was responsible for the breakdown of the peace process. Now, for the first time, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has weighed in, accusing Yasser Arafat of being a liar who talked peace while secretly...www.theguardian.com
"The proposals included the establishment of a demilitarised Palestinian state on some 92% of the West Bank and 100% of the Gaza Strip, with some territorial compensation for the Palestinians from pre-1967 Israeli territory; the dismantling of most of the settlements and the concentration of the bulk of the settlers inside the 8% of the West Bank to be annexed by Israel; the establishment of the Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem, in which some Arab neighborhoods would become sovereign Palestinian territory and others would enjoy 'functional autonomy...'"
How likely is it any Palestinian state without a military would have survived 24 years of IDF terror? Arafat would have been assassinated if he had accepted a deal that required Palestinians to give up their claims to most of East Jerusalem and forfeit their Right of Return to assets stolen by Jews in 1948.

"Imagine someone sitting in your chair for over seven decades. Again, imagine this person was sitting in your house and eating from your trees!"
Why did Arafat reject Barak's generous offer at Camp David? - Palestine Remembered
- "According to Barak's offer, the proposed Palestinian areas would have been cut from East to West and from North to South so that the Palestinian state would have consisted of a group of islands, each surrounded by Israeli settlers and soldiers. No sovereign nation would accept such an arrangement that could hinder its strategic national security and interests; click here for a map illustration.
- "It's not only that the future Palestinian state would have been completely demilitarized, and Israeli early warning radar installation would have been installed deep in the Palestinian areas, but also its economic, social, and political relations with its neighboring Arab states would have been severely scrutinized by Israel as well."