Maybe I can get my house back in Gush Katif.
Too bad it got destroyed.
Along with our farm and synagogue.
The reason people are reluctant is not the Arabs.
It’s a change in policy that results in everything you build getting taken away.
Do we have any folks with Israeli blood languishing in our nations’ jails that could volunteer to emigrate? For Epstein it’s too late.
I lived in three places in Judah and Samaria for a total of about 12 years. There never was a removal on as massive a scale as Gush Katif, but there were little retail demolitions and removals. For example, that neighborhood in Elazar, the Mitzpeh Avihai hilltop outpost next to the Harsina neighborhood in Kiryat Arba, and individual houses and buildings all over the place. The Arabs were never a problem. Although I’ve moved away to Nahariya in the North, I keep in touch with one close friend who is a devout Muslim, but also a gentle, decent soul.
Improving relations between Jews and Arabs is exactly WHY the Two State Final Solution must never be allowed to happen. It’s glorified Apartheid and ghetto-ization, which destroys vital connections between Jews and Arabs, who are very closely related, culturally, religiously, ethnically and linguistically. The less we see of each other, the easier it is for men of ill will to demonize and stir up trouble.
“Two states for two peoples” is so much racist blather. Enough, already.