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To: honway
You sidestepped the issue. Why is it more reasonable to forcibly remove all Jews from the Holy Land than it is to resettle Muslim Arabs in Muslim Arab countries?
170 posted on 04/08/2003 9:20:02 AM PDT by Alouette (Why is it called "International Law" if only Israel and the United States are expected to keep it?)
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To: Alouette
Why is it more reasonable to forcibly remove all Jews from the Holy Land than it is to resettle Muslim Arabs in Muslim Arab countries?

Neither is a reasonable alternative, in my view. That's why I believe we should stop considering impossible alternatives such as resettlement and deal with the way the world is, not how we would like it to be. The Road Map is our best hope of moving forward, in my opinion.

173 posted on 04/08/2003 9:25:06 AM PDT by honway
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To: Alouette
It is more reasonable to resettle Muslim Arabs in Muslim Arab countries. I am not talking about all Muslim Arabs. The Muslim Arabs who are citizens of Israel, of course, should stay within Israel. The Muslim Arabs who live in the West Bank and are citizens of Jordan I think should be able to stay in their homes, with Jordanian (East Palestinian) citizenship, provided that they don't act in a way that is inconsistent with their recognition of Israel's existence.

However, there are millions of Palestinian refugees who left the land that became the state of Israel in 1948, who live -- to this day! With their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren!! -- as stateless refugees. Their refugee camps happen to be located in the west bank (for example, the camp in Jenin that Israel raided in April-May 2002). Those people, I suggest, should be repatriated to Jordan and given citizenship in the real Arab Palestinian state.

By the way, did you read that the Jenin camp renamed its "town square" after the first suicide bomber against the Americans in Iraq?
294 posted on 04/08/2003 10:51:14 PM PDT by Piranha
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