40 years since the six day war. Any comments?

[donnie]

will the west make some kind of gesture towards the dispossessed Palestinians and resume payments to the Palestinian authority? or are we happy to let Israel continue their illegal occupation ?

peachy..its very hard cause the west wont deal with elected democratic government of palestinans ..er, cause its the wrong party ...and so the suffering goes on and on...

until the connections are made in this country or we are made to care it looks likely to continue

heartbreaking...

know Suzy, its so ironi cisnt it, what with the USA etc erm' bringing democracy to the middle east (I use that term with notes of extreme sarcasm)

It's one of the sticky wickets of democracy, really - what happens when the party elected doesn't fit the profile. I mean, what would happen if, god forbid, the BNP were elected to government here?

I can understand it being difficult for the Israelis to come to the negotiating table with a government that is sworn to destroy them. The possibility for compromise isn't immediately obvious there, really.

Exactly Sue

Its managed to become an impossible question.

Indeed the whole reason I didnt pick it for my presentation was the question part asking us to specify how we'd resolve the situation! Er, dunno doesnt really cut it at degree level.

those who did select it were polarised either way. Either the Palestinians should accept that god intended the Jewish peole to be there, or the Jewish people should get out now and maklet the Palestinians have their homes back.

Nobody who chose it seemed to cotton on that these are people's homes, lives, where they were raised: nor did they seem to realise that a mandate from God for one faith is meaningless to another and cant be enforceable with fairness.

Best avoided, imo

interesting subject ladies

and not much time atm..need to dash dash dash..

dh spouts that the jews should have got part of germany to settle in because they started it ...
and there are jews that disagree with state of israel..
we are so complicit in all this balfour declaration etc..
i read robert fisk when i feel strong enough half way through great civilisations in tears and bad dreams so stopped a while ago

why is the tone or content of the OP " inflammatory" ? which bit, exactly? the bit about it being illegal? well it is. And Israel itself accepts that - so can someone elucidate?

or the bit about the witholding of payments by the world bank? they ARE being witheld.

Or the bit about the Palestinians being dispossessed? check out those refugee camps.

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Israel/Palestine is such a difficult situation because the extreme elements on both sides are conducting the agenda and both have entrenched and immutable positions.

The powers that be that represent the Palestinians are duplicitous, corrupt as hell and are too busy slaughtering each other rather than working towards a solution that would benefit all the Palestinian people.

The Israelis use the threat of suicide bombers etc as an excuse to cage the Palestinians on their side of the fence by building their version of the Berlin Wall.

When faced with such polarised, antagonistic polemics who won't listen, talk, compromise or acknowledge eithers position, how on earth can this dreadfully and desperately sad situation be resolved? At the moment, it is impossible.

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