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In reply to the discussion: Both right. Both wrong. But only one really bears responsibility. [View all]Martin Eden
(12,885 posts)There can be no viable Palestinian state while the West Bank is sliced & diced by Israeli settlements and the roads connecting them.
One of two things must happen:
1) Israelis abandon their West Bank settlements, some of which have been their homes for generations now.
2) Israelis in the West Bank agree to live within the Palestinian state under Palestinian authority.
What is the liklihood that either will come to pass?
While peace talk after peace talk has failed, facts on the ground are slowly and inexorably established with every home that is constructed in the growing settlements.
The problem the Jews will have to contend with if/when Greater Israel is finally and fully established is the demographic time bomb of the people living within their borders. Unless a mass exodus or annihilation of Palestinians occurs, Jews will eventually be a minority in the Jewish State. Greater Israel will either be an apartheid state or no longer a Jewish state.