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In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu to Abbas: If settlements didn’t exist, would you recognize a Jewish state? [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)21. Arab Israelis already have equal rights guaranteed by law, so be honest - okay?
And apparently you approve of Arafat and Abbas' decisions the past 16 years to reject their own homeland free of occupation and settlements. Which led to thousands of deaths.
Making you the one here who is pro-occupation and settlements. And certainly not pro-peace, being for the bloodbath that has ensued ever since, though you claim to be all about human rights & against war.
How am I wrong? This conflict should have been over 16 years ago. No war, no occupation, no settlements, Palestinians have their own state. Game over, end of story.
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Netanyahu to Abbas: If settlements didn’t exist, would you recognize a Jewish state? [View all]
shira
Nov 2016
OP
The very fact they won't recognize a Jewish state, won't give up on millions of refugees....
shira
Nov 2016
#6
Perhaps they just find it a little unfair that one group of people have refugee status
Tony_FLADEM
Nov 2016
#7
Yeah, it's unfair Jews are indigenous to Israel - isn't it? As for Palestinian refugees....
shira
Nov 2016
#8
From the time Jews began going to 'Palestine' in the last 19th century until about the late 1920's
Tony_FLADEM
Nov 2016
#9
Start at 1920, the Palestine of that time period designed to be the Jewish homeland....
shira
Nov 2016
#16
Now I'm curious, Tich. What was Palestine's boundaries during the Mandate period?
shira
Nov 2016
#42
Palestinians have rejected 3 deals in the past 16 years. Land swaps solve settlements...
shira
Nov 2016
#24
To play devil's advocate, if the Abbas said yes they would recognize Isreal, would the settlements
still_one
Nov 2016
#26
The Palestinians have rejected 3 peace deals since 2000 in which settlements would be dismantled....
shira
Nov 2016
#27
I am presenting a hypothetical shira. What would Netanyahu do if Abbas agreed to that?
still_one
Nov 2016
#28
I think the pressure would be too much on Netanyahu. Remember 1999 when Barak won....
shira
Nov 2016
#29