Two-thirds of Jewish Israelis dont consider West Bank occupied poll

[Ken Burch]

1. That's a big part of the problem.

Too many stuck on the "Judea and Samaria" delusion, as though 14 centuries of a Palestinian Arab majority are nothing and as though Palestinians have no real right to be there.

After 1967, the Israeli government should have left it at just bringing back the people forced out in 1948. In all likelihood, ordinary Palestinians could have lived with that-it was the Jordanians who expelled the indigenous Jewish community.


The Israel government should never have started the settlement project and forced Palestinians into an intolerable choice of going into exile or being forever powerless on their own lands.

Israel HAS a right to exist...but there is no possible way that asserting the right to live in the West Bank could possibly be more important than working for peace.

And if the Israeli do ultimately annex the West Bank, what possible right will it ever have again to claim to want peace? How can Netanyahu possibly imagine peace could come without the Palestinians having the right to self-determination?