Can you look at this map and say Israel does not systemically appropriate land?

oralloy wrote: "After Ariel Sharon slipped into a coma, Ehud Olmert tried negotiating again. This time the Palestinians did nothing but stonewall the negotiations."

Not so: Olmert got along well with the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank, as shown by the Annapolis Conference of 2007:

"A joint understanding, read by US president George Bush, stated that "In furtherance of the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security" the parties agreed to"immediately launch good-faith bilateral negotiations in order to conclude a peace treaty, resolving all outstanding issues, including all core issues without exception, as specified in previous agreements". A steering committee would meet from 12 December 2007, followed by biweekly negotiations between President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert.

"The parties also committed to immediately implement their respective obligations under the Roadmap for peace and to continue the implementation of it until they had reached a peace treaty, to be concluded before the end of 2008."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis_Conference

It was Hamas (primarily in Gaza) that responded to peace overtures with unremitting violence. That was when Olmert targeted their leadership.

Hamas was culpable, not Olmert. But when Netanyahu and Likud retook power, Likud and Hamas became jointly culpable for pursuing the joint policy of no peace settlement and no Palestinian state.

Israel should recognize the Palestinian Authority as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people (whether it is or not) and recognize/create an independent Palestinian state consisting of the West Bank. The Gaza Strip would retain its current status.

I too wish the Israelis could behave rationally once in a while.

I'm not believing that all Israelis think genocide is a good thing.

I also think it's a very bad idea that military aid is given to a nation/state that has nuclear weapons, but isn't a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or in any way under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Israel's admin jumps up and down about any kind of nuclear activity in Iran, while denying anyone entry to their own nuclear facilities/arsenal.
Hypocrisy much?

An alliance of political parties participating in a government jointly = a "coalition" in my book, and that's standard nomenclature in English usage.

Far right Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is arriving in Washington, D.C., Monday, and will apparently ask the US to almost double its $3 bn. a year in aid to $5 bn.

Far right Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is arriving in Washington, D.C., Monday, and will apparently ask the US to almost double its $3 bn. a year in aid to $5 bn.

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Pouring billions of dollars and vast political capital into the unsustainable colonization of a fee acres of land.

Undermining the Jewish demographic majority in doing so (the one state scenario is becoming inevitable).

Requiring others to recognize the Jewish nature of their state at the same time as they undermine it.

Allowing the religious frindge to take over a state originally built by secular zionists.

Preventing people to mary the way and with whom they want.

Supporting Cheikh Yassine before they assassinated him.

Wow, that Juan Cole scumbag sure is a Nazi.

Could you verify this?

oralloy wrote:

Wow, that Juan Cole scumbag sure is a Nazi.

Could you verify this?

there is ansolutely nothing that is in the least nazi-like in that juan cole piece.

oralloy has tried playing thd nazi card so many times so foolishly that his accusation stinks like month old fish.

his accusation stinks like month old fish.