montelatici
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And the ONLY reason there is no Palestinian state is because the Palestinian leadership has rejected every offer for one.
Every time.
Pointing this irrefutable fact out does a number of things. It shows that Israel doesn't want to control another people, it shows that Israel wants peace, and it shows that Palestinians prefer "occupation" to statehood.
Moreover, it puts the Israel-hater on the defensive, forced to stutter that the peace offers weren't good enough or whatever. To which the response is....then the "occupation" cannot really be so bad, can it?
When forced to answer this simple observation, the Israel-haters show that they don't want a state either. They will say that a state without Jerusalem or without "return" of "refugees" - not to Palestine, but to Israel - is not worth it.
Showing that they don't really care about "occupation" but about destroying Israel.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Zionists said they would accept a state the size of a handkerchief. They accepted a UN partition plan that wrested Jerusalem from them. They desperately needed a state for the Jews to live in without fear of being murdered.
Palestinians, however, don't have any sense of urgency in their supposed quest for a state. They are willing to wait decades.
If that is true, then they are the ones who are prolonging 'occupation," not Israel.
(full article online)
"But....but...what about the occupation????" (Poster) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
The 1948 partition left a third of the Muslims and Christians, who with the Bedouins outnumbered the Jews, within the partition that was to be ruled by Jews. How was that acceptable to the native people.
The Palestinians have never been offered a sovereign state. The past deals all required that the Palestinians accept a continued Jewish military occupation. It is the Jews who have insisted on continued occupation and continued control of non-Jews. There is no moral (or legal) rationale for punishing the native people of Palestine for crimes commited against the Jews by Europeans.