gbaji wrote:
But not all Palestinians, right? Not even a tiny percentage of Palestinians. So there's some factor other than just being Palestinian which causes these homes to be destroyed. We should maybe look at that rather than proclaim this to be some broad attack on Palestinian rights.
Did they or did they not bulldoze homes. Simple ******* question. I said it happened. You said it didn't. Either it did, or it didn't. How much is irrelevant.
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And what percentage is that? Look, the very fact that they have to get permits for this suggests that it's far more on the up and up than say, lobbing rockets at civilians. Which happened like 60 times last year.
Right because going to an Israeli Court and asking for permits to bulldoze Palestinian homes to put up more Israeli homes isn't a one sided decision. Do you think the PLO gets to say, hey guys you don't get permits. No they don't have any say. Israel Bulldozes swaths of Occupied land every single year. This is land that is not within Israels borders. It is not their land, yet they are treating it as if it is. What is so hard to understand about this?
Maybe if Israel stopped poaching land that is not their people wouldn't fight back. What happens when you corner and animal and poke it with a stick. It will ******* try and bite you.
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Do you honestly believe that if Israel tomorrow granted the Palestinians every single thing they are asking for, it would end the violence or prevent the complete destruction of their nation? You're demanding infinite restraint of a nation that is subject to attacks that will never end until they are destroyed. What do you realistically expect Israel to do?
No, but I honestly believe if Israel toned down the provocation rhetoric they have been running on since 1968 that it might actually make way for peaceful negotiations. Shooting Civilians who happen to be walking on their side of a concrete and barbed fence is not a very diplomatic thing to do. Driving through villages with people tied to the hood of your military vehicles is not a very diplomatic thing to do. You give Israel far to much credit in being "peaceful" Just because your country doesn't support the UN resolutions on Israeli human rights violations doesn't mean they don't exist. Just because your media doesn't report on the **** Israel does to the Palestinians doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I know you don't get your news from anywhere, so maybe you should start?
Quit being ignorant Gbaji. Neither side is in the right in this hopefully you are not obtuse enough to believe otherwise.
That being said:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2014/03/oil-palestine
Here is Israels first test. Will they let Palestine exploit their new found oil? Or will they make claim to it too?