| Talkback | |
|
Title: | #2 Petteri is puzzled | |||
| |||||
| Name: | Johnboy | | |||
| |||||
| City: | Sydney | State: | Australia | | |
| You ask: "then shouldn`t the inhabitants (=Palestinians) also belong to the state of Israel as citizens?" And you have nailed it, sonny. The central problem for Israeli policy. It wants the land, but it does not want the people who come with the land. But how to engineer that? It can not annex the land, because then the people become Israelis. It can`t say the land is occupied, because it can`t then eject the occupied people, and it can`t steal land from them. So it is stuck with a legal nonsense - the land is not "occupied", it`s "disputed". And while it is Israel can do what it likes with the LAND (i.e. steal it) while treating the PEOPLE as non-people. All to do with a missing "the" in Res 242. Of course, this means that Israel has an incentive to avoid a peace settlement, because as soon as the land is no longer "disputed", the land grabs must stop. |
| |  |
|
 |
|
 |
