Reply #26: Golda Meir was not saying NO-ONE was there... [View All]

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What she was saying in her quote about there not being a Palestinian people was that she refused to acknowledge that a group of people existed called Palestinians. She knew there were people there, but to her they were just Arabs who had no claim to the land whatsoever. Which is just as hateful and extreme as anyone claiming a group of people called Israelis don't exist or don't deserve to exist as a people....

As for the excuse about there being not much of a viable political entity authority in the Occupied Territories, quite bluntly, there was no viable political entity authority in East Timor when it was occupied by Indonesia for the territory to be handed to. A people under brutal occupation tend not to be able to develop the sort of solid and viable government that you are saying the Palestinians should. That development comes AFTER the occupying power has ended the occupation, and I consider it extremely unreasonanble for anyone here to expect the palestinians do what other occupied people aren't expected to do...