Israel Set to Rapidly Expand West Bank Settlement

[AloeVera]

6. It was difficult to get past this:

"It possible it could have created with less difficulties for the Palestinians."

I don't know what to say to that. "Difficulties"?? Please read Ilan Pappe, Benny Morris, Rashid Khalidi. Lots more. It was a massacre, destruction and burning of villages and the ethnic cleansing of three-quarters of a million people who were then shot if they tried to return home. May none of us ever have such "difficulties".

As for the West Bank...they never should have been allowed to settle it in the first place. Did you know Palestinians are now squeezed into less than 10% of what was once Palestine? Israel has the rest. My point was that if the West had been serious about its commitment to a Palestinian state, it would have taken action to stop the settler encroachment. Actions speak louder than words and if they don't match its usually because they were just words.

I won't debate Israel's "right" to exist. It simply exists now. And it is not going anywhere. Of course Jews have a history there. They were about 5% of the population of Palestine before the Zionist movement took off well over a hundred years ago. I suppose if you think people have a "right" to come back after a few thousand years and kick out the current inhabitants aka natives, then maybe Palestinians will be granted the right of return too finally. On or about 4026 A.D. And that will be just fine with Israel no doubt. Give me relief too please.

In thrall to the IDEA of Israel as opposed to facing Israel as it actually is. Fact vs fiction, reality vs fantasy and myth.