[So tired of this canard. Israel has had 63 years of TOTAL control of these Arabs, if she really wanted to kill them all or evict them all, it would have been done LONG ago.
If Israels goal was to eliminate the Palestinians, they could easily do it. Instead, the Palestinian population is growing.
C'mon, guys. I know NEITHER OF YOU smart fellas is as naive as you're letting on with these responses. I know that such esteemed posters like yourselves are not claiming that Israel
hasn't been forcibly evicting Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, and continues to do so to this day.
Palestinian couple evicted from home of half a century as Jerusalem settlers move in | World news | guardian.co.uk
"Palestinians have long argued that evictions and demolitions are an attempt by Israel to reduce the number of Palestinians in east Jerusalem to allow settlement expansion and to pre-judge a final status peace agreement."
U.S. condemns eviction of Arab families from East Jerusalem - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
"A large force of several hundred police officers evicted the two families from their homes in the early Sunday morning. Hours later the families' possessions were cleared from the homes and two Jewish families moved in."
UN relief chief urges end to Israeli policies of evictions and demolitions
"The top United Nations humanitarian official today urged Israel to end its evictions policy after visiting communities in East Jerusalem where residents have been forced from their homes to make way for Israeli settlements, even as other residents face the prospect of having their houses and schools demolished."
And well, killing them, that's a more complicated issue, it kills 'em every now and again directly,
Gaza War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [look under "Casualties"]
Israel - Total Killed: 13 [Inc. 4 from friendly fire]
Israel - Total Wounded: 518
Gaza - Total Killed: 1,417
Gaza - Total Wounded: 5,303
The problem is of course, it has to do kill 'em indirectly most of the time, cuz to put them in trains and gas chambers might hit a bit too close to home. So, instead, it just locks an area with 1.5 million Palestinians and doesn't let anything come in or out, as well as massively restricting any growth in industry and hence employment in the West Bank. It's a strategy of making life miserable for Palestinians so that they leave.
But don't believe me, I'm just a "radical socialist anti-semite", but is the World Bank a radical socialist anti-semite institution too??
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/...trictedAccesstoLandintheWestBankOct.21.08.pdf
World Bank said:
Yet, due to the particular political situation of the West Bank, Palestinians are denied economic and even physical access to a large share of that land. Thus, land scarcity in the West Bank is more artificial than real. [...] With few exceptions, national space is generally contiguous. This is not the case today in the West Bank and Gaza which is split into the two geographically separate areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and in which the West Bank is further fragmented into a multitude of enclaves, with a regime of movement restrictions between them. [...] While illegal under international law 9, since the military occupation in 1967 Israel has established numerous settlements in the West Bank with a growing population of Israeli settlers (an estimated 461,000 in 2007). 10 They are heavily concentrated in and around East. Jerusalem (estimated at 57% of the settler population) 11, progressively encircling the city, and socially and economically isolating its quarter million Palestinians from the rest of the West Bank. [...] With an estimated net average annual rate of 3.44% between 2003-2007, the growth rate of the settler population is nearly double that of the overall Israeli population during the same period (1.79%) 12. Furthermore, the land set aside for the future expansion of the settlements surpasses by an even larger extent the needs of the fast growing settler population.
But hey, what the fuck does the World Bank know about anything? Obviously Israel wants peace with the Palestinians and a two-state solution. It's just the Palestinians that are bad. Henceforth, the answer is to kill every single Palestinians. You guys agree, right?
I think you guys and Mr. Steve Harper will agree with me: Israel's been too lenient, Hamas is a terrorist organization, Palestinians voted for Hamas, therefore all Palestinians are terrorists, and hence, Israel has a right to kill or evict each and every Palestinian. Do you guys agree with this statement?
Only a mental midget like you would interpret it that way. Rather, Ottowa is saying that a 2 state solution is a MUST, but borders and everything else has to be negotiated between the Israelis and Palestinians!
G, I know exactly what the Harper government is saying, and I know you very much agree with their position: The status quo is perfectly good. Israelis cannot be expected to concede on anything, and Palestinians don't really have anything left to concede. Therefore, the status quo is fine, Israel should continue to build settlements in the West Bank and Gaza by evicting Palestinians and confiscating land. Israel needs lebensrau- whoops, I mean a "security zone", to deal with "security threats from the East." So "negotiations" must continue, because as long as they continue, Israel can keep putting its population into the land in negotiation. This works well for everyone, or rather, everyone in Israel, but that's what really matters anyway, so it's ok.
Because Hamas will continue to be terrorists nothing should be done?
