Given some sixty years or so to act, the grandparents and parents of the current horde of nomadic peasants of Arabic descent have never, of their own volition, come together, and said, “We will raise a nation here.” It is not, and never has been, the presence of Israel that has in any PREVENTED the Palestinian Arabs from acting unilaterally and forming their own government, with the duties and services that governments everywhere must provide in some measure. The whole focus of the Palestinian Authority has always been to throw the “Zionists” off the land, and continue in their old drifter nomadic ways, developing none of the resources at hand, but allowing the land to lie fallow, the existing structures allowed to dry up, crumble, and blow away in the dust.
About as an “anti-life” position as anyone could take. Yeah, I can see where that would appeal to the nascent obama regime.
>>>> The whole focus of the Palestinian Authority .... drifter nomadic ways .... land to lie fallow .... dry up, crumble, and blow away in the dust. <<<<<
Thanks to Google Maps and Google Earth, anyone can take a look at greater Israel and clearly and plainly see that on the Israeli side of the “border” is greenery and industry, and on the “Palestinean” side is dirt, decay, slums, and nothingness.
Also from Gaza all the way north are ports, obvious vacation resorts with beaches and boats, and more.
From the Gaza border south, again, there is nothing.
There might be some minor argument that the “Palestineans” are somehow (mysteriously) burdened by the Israelis, were it not for the undeniable fact that this desolation, laziness, and complete lack of human industry is in practice everywhere throughout the Arab Muslim world. Everywhere!