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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
By far, the most bizarre statement in this thread. Either you have not a slightest clue about Middle East political dynamics or you are an irrational anti-Semite, akin to Barry Fisher, who writes similarly worded letters to Calgary Herald all the time.
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Israel is by any definition a pariah state, that doesn't make me an anti-semite. The fact that you would lob that grenade so early into this conversation shows how little you have to argue or offer about it.
How would define a country that entered into a peace process about defining borders and retracting stolen land that then increased the speed by which it acquired more land from the party it was negotiating peace with and displaced more people than it did the year before it entered the peace negotiations?
Lets say Israel would be negotiating with Iran over nuclear proliferation and the Iranians during the negotiations doubled the amount of uranium they were refining. How do you think Israel would respond to that?
Well, between 2013 and 2014 Israel entered into formal peace negotiations with the Palestinians. During that time they seized 50% more land for illegal settlements than the year before and displaced 75% more people. Supposedly while peace negotiations were on.
Here's the thing with people who can't see rationally on this issue. They don't understand the fundamental dynamics that there are no other concessions the Palestinians can offer at this point. Israeli politicians can't climb down from their rhetoric of justice because Israel has taken so much of the capital and goodwill that any actual process should the Israelis genuinely want to achieve peace will require them moving first with large new concessions.
Calling that out makes me anti-semetic, okay then...