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A.P. Richelieu
As I've told you, many people like you here say you support a two state solution or that is what's on your agenda and I want to refer you to one of my posts which a member here didn't really know how to respond to and that's not a bad thing.
Post 3 on this thread.
2 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank today
A two state solution is the desirable goal, but it is a difficult goal to reach.
Clearly the leadership of both parties needs to be interested, and a right wing
Israeli leadership is not facilitating this, for sure.
Having Hamas in power in Gaza gives similar problems. Democratically elected,
undemocratically staying in power without new elections.
I do not doubt that som right wing Israelis would be more than happy if
Palestinians left the West Bank en masse (understatement), and I am quite aware
of difficulties facing Palestinians in Jerusalem, where their treatment may (or may not)
be according to local laws, but hardly are fair.
There are however other Israelis which do believe in fair treatment of Palestinians,
and of course some that would like a two state solution purely on demographics.
At the moment, Israel seems to be hanging on to an Occupation, which many Israelis
do no like simply because noone has been able to sell them a better idea.
It is the lesser of several evils.
Where You go wrong in your posting is that the jews immigrated to the area and behaved
like immigrants, not an occupying army in the beginning.
When large groups of people move around, then this will cause friction.
Very similar to Kosovo, where Albanians gradually moved to "Serbian" territory.
The Serbs decided to throw them out and got their nose bloodied.
Or Crimea for that part, invaded by Russians, which threw out the Tatars,
which in their turn invaded centuries earlier. God knows who the originals Inhabitants were.
There are many Muslims that go to Europe in a similar way that the jews went to Israel.
According to Your reasoning they should be thrown out. A few of these Muslims (not too many)
tries to force Europeans to abide to Muslim customs, and that is not too popular.
Many European countries are fighting against racist or populistic movements, that wants
the Muslims (and others) to be thrown out,
but at least within the E.U. you have free movement, and this is considered
a good thing by most others.
You want to be associated with European anti Muslim racists, it is your problem,
Noone is actually harmed, if the neighbor happens to be a little bit different.
That is a lesson which is hard learned, and I do not see it happening soon
in the region.
