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Old 11-01-08, 11:22   #3
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Re: bush on palestine

You missed a couple of bits;

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Palestinian refugee families should be compensated, rather than returning to former homes in what is now Israel
adjustments to the pre-1967 boundaries "to reflect current realities" - a reference to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank
So no right of return for people expelled from their homes, and "some" land taken off Israel which they have been illegally occupying.

On what is to be done.
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On the Israeli side, that includes ending settlement expansion and removing unauthorised outposts.

"On the Palestinian side, that includes confronting terrorists and dismantling terrorist infrastructure," he said.
Ending "expansion" (note the use of the word expansion rather than the actual correct term of "occupation") rather than suggesting rollback suggests that what is there will stay. In conjunction with the term "reflect current realities" above what it is suggesting is that the entire boundary between Palestine & Israel will be re-drawn, and I would have more than a guess that it will follow pretty closely the wall the Israelis have built.

And who will decide on whether what the Palestinians have satisfactorily confronted "terrorists" and dismantled "terrorist infrastructure"? The UN? A new international monitoring body? Or Israel. I'd have a wild guess it would be Israel, or at a push, Israels benefactor the US. And since the US & Israel considers Hamas to be a terrorist group, presumably that would mean an end to any democracy in Palestine which could possibly elect them.

Complete spin, and if anyone thinks the Palestinians will go for this they're off their heads. Yasser Arafat was getting offered slightly more than this and the breakdown in negotiation led to the current Intafada ffs! Israel I could see going for it. After all, they get to keep the land they have been occupying for 40 years, they get to re-draw the boundaries to get the most precious resource in the area which is water, and they have to get assurances from everyone that there will never be any "terrorism" directed against it. Can the Palestinians get a similar assurance that Israel will not use their terrorist infrastructure of US built and sunsidised F-15s used against their population and political leaders that Israel doesn't like? Can the Palestinians get assurances that Israel will stop rolling their tanks into Palestinian territory at the drop of a hat?
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