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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
My solution? Give the Palestinians a homeland as well. Split Israel in two and give half to the Palestinians. Hey, it worked for Solomon.
Frankly, I think this is the only solution. Both are making claim to the turf, so split it up, negotiate settlements across the board, make it binding, and let the healing begin. A settlement needs to be enforced on BOTH parties, and done so by the international community. The international community created this mess, they have to clean it up. They need to arbitrate the settlement and then make the two sides live by it. The international community needs to police it afterwards and treat both sides equally. That is the solution. |
I hate to disagree with you, but that solution would never work based on the history of this conflict. Whenever Isreal has given up land for piece they've been paid back with more rockets and bombs exploding in thier home land. Its come to the point where the extreme groups aren't talking about getting a homeland for thier people, or negotiating for a settlement, they've talked about destroying Israel, or not recogonizing Jews as human beings.
I think your hearts in the right place Lanny, but honestly Israel is no longer going to want to give up anything, they've been stabbed too often for that to happen.
the finger of shame has to be pointed to the Muslim nations in that area who would prefer to see the Palestines suffer, and die and face an angry Israel because it makes for a powerful political statement. The right thing to do would be for Egypt to offer settlement lands to the Palestines, and for Jordan and Syria and all of the other nations in the region to ante up either land of cash.
Isn't the one of the major tenants of Islam charity?
Seems like these nations aren't following up on this.
The Palestines have been dupped and used on three sides. 1) The UN who did a **** poor job of settling this issues 2) Egypt, Syria and Jordan who could have settled this situation a long time ago, but choose not to 3) Israel, because they over retaliate at times and stupidly allow themselves to be played up as the bad guys.
Just my two cents.