Quote Originally Posted by DDT
Quote Originally Posted by Cyphyr
The wall is presented as a purely protective measure when in actual fact it is also being used to pre-empt a future negotiated settlement and cement Israel's landgrab of Palestinian territory.
There is no land grab by Israel. That land (The entire West Bank and Gaza) was already forfieted and lost to Israel by Palestinian Arab acts of war. As the victors, Israel gets to decide what land, if any, she will give to her Arab enemies. That was the risk that Arabs took when they challenged Israel to war. They can build that wall any where they feel like.
DDT, do you believe it was a mistake not to drive out the Arab population from the West Bank during or in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 war? Just curious. There are no problems today with Czech or Polish forces controlling large German populations in the areas that used to belong to Germany or had German populations before World War II. Do you think that was the correct approach to dealing with conquered territory and should have been applied with the land Israel captured as well?