Thank you everyone. I always wondered why Israel didn’t just claim it all but then they’d have to make all the Arabs citizens. By slowly building only close to the line in the West, they are only taking what they can control and make strategic sense out of.
Hard to blame them considering the intransigence of the Palestinian Arabs all these years. I guess it comes down to private land as opposed to sovereign land, just as happened during the Mandate.
The muslims who are always going on about waiting centuries to accomplish their aims probably should’ve been a little quieter about it since this now working against them.
Without a state in the West Bank that would be friendly instead of making kids shows about evil Jews and blowing people up, there is no guarantee that the vulnerable middle of Israel wouldn’t have a threat to cut it in half again as in 1967. Robert E. Lee after the fall of Richmond should’ve been the guide for the Palestinian Arabs to follow rather than an idiot like Arafat who is probably the single greatest enemy the Palestinian Arabs have ever had.
I agree that this should be looked at from a larger point of view than just legal niceties from the League of Nations, United Nations or Mandatory Palestine, none of which had any real legal jurisdiction in the first place. To the winner go the spoils and to a loser who won’t say ‘uncle’ goes nothing. It’d be different if the Palestinian Arabs had gone with the rule of international law in the first place but they shouldn’t be able to go that way now only because the military option has failed them.
The sudden interest on the part of the Palestinian Arabs in international law is phony. They should’ve learned to live in peace in the first place instead of feeling that land belongs to religion. In the end, land belongs to those who can take it and hold it once 2 sides go to war.
The fact that Islam believes the middle east belongs to them as some kind of a holy enclave or wafq that applies to any land they ever seize is why everyone else who is not a muslim has done poorly in those areas.
Muslims do not play well with others and have trouble living in places with multiple views on worship and equal rights. Considering the vast arrogance of Islam and the way some in America agitate and connive, I have to admit that I cringe every time I hear about mosques in Memphis. Muslim leadership seems to think the whole world belongs to them and when it comes to America it’s not much of an exaggeration to suggest that Islam comes down squarely on the divine right of kings rather than the colonial American decision regarding this.
A religion that feels it can only fully express itself when only it controls all the toys is not a very mature one. Islam is still struggling with pre-Enlightenment issues and has yet to make any connection between its own failure on the world stage and its adherence to the idea of religion in government, even with the issue clearly stated and on the table in the West for a long, long time.
I don’t think muslims should be allowed into America. I don’t see how they can on the one hand argue that Jews had no right to immigrate into Mandatory Palestine and then bitch and moan about every little thing once they’re in America; to me muslims are the ultimate opportunists and don’t make good Americans – if that were not true, they wouldn’t be coming here in the first place. We’ve had our revolutions, civil war and social upheavals, let Islam stay home and figure their own shit out. Number one on the list should be to stop having 6 kids to a family while they can still at least pretend to actually be feeding themselves without outside help.
