[Jeff Head]

They defeated peoples and nations that wanted to annihalate them and drive them into the sea. Many of those same peoples and nations still have the same notion.

IMHO, and I tend to agree with it, it is not a matter of occupation, it is a matter of ownership now.

Given the territory and the lay of the land and defense and security considerations ... I believe Israel should simply state that those areas are now part of Israel by virtue of their taking it in a defensive war against total agression. Israel should administer it all as a part of its own territory. In fact they should have done so beginning in 1967 and again in 1972. Anyone in the area wanting to swear allegiance to the state of Israel can do so and through a normalization process become a citizen. Anyone not wanting to do so is deported.

That's why I will never be a politician I suppose.

[Johnny Shear]

Given the territory and the lay of the land and defense and security considerations ... I believe Israel should simply state that those areas are now part of Israel by virtue of their taking it in a defensive war against total agression.

Yes, but they didn't "Take it" back during the 1967 war (Not for good anyway like they did other parts of what is now "Greater Isreal but wasn't in 1948....And those territories don't even seem to be disputed now), they simply "Occupied" it, and now we have all these problems.

So, do the settlers consider The West Bank as their home? Like they do Isreal? (And I'm not talking about those who use the bible as a way to state it's always been "Their home"), I'm wondering if they are of the opinion that they "Won" the West Bank in 1967???

[demsux]

Given the territory and the lay of the land and defense and security considerations ... I believe Israel should simply state that those areas are now part of Israel by virtue of their taking it in a defensive war against total agression. Israel should administer it all as a part of its own territory.

By this reasoning, we should be in control of Japan

[zarf]

The Israeli's conquered the land after they were invaded.

It's there's to do with as they wish.

If the Pallies want it, they must jump through hoops to get it.

[rastus macgill]

Palestineans would likely jump at the chance for citizenship then they could just vote to call the whole country Palestine.But then it wouldn't be a Jewish state and a whole lot of peoples apocalyptic fantasies of end times would be ruined.The ideal solution would be a single peaceful democratic Secular State that ensured the rights of all who live there Jew Muslim or Christian but I must be dreaming.