Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu to Abbas: If settlements didn’t exist, would you recognize a Jewish state? [View all]Tony_FLADEM
(3,023 posts)they lived peacefully with the Arabs who were living there. So the issue wasn't about Jews living there. The conflict started when the Palestinian Arabs started losing their rights and the land they were living on was sold or given away without their consent with no chance for them to ever attain possession of it ever again.
How far back do you go to determine indigenous rights? With respect to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict we have to go back over 3,000 years. Do you do this anywhere else in the world to determine property rights? And how do you determine if someone is Jewish for this purpose? Suppose you give an Arab living in the middle east a genealogy test and it's determined scientifically that the person is partly Jewish do they now have indigenous land rights or is it someone who believes in the Jewish religion but came from a thousand miles away and is unlikely to share any genetic traits with some Jews who lived in the Middle East 3,000 years ago?
I already showed you that the Palestinians recognized the state of israel in 1988. Netanyahu wanting the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is just a delaying tactic until he figures out how to keep putting Israeli's in Palestinian territory but without having to take eventual responsibility for them (one state solution) which isn't possible but he'll keep delaying until more people figure that out.