Posted by
RightTeacher on Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:05:50 PM
Israeli Settlements in the West Bank.
I thought it might be silly to put the same numbered topic on all of these posts even though the topics are all different, so I put in a subtopic. Anyway.
Ralph Nader threw in a critique on Israel into his left wing rant (we can only hope he runs a good campaign and experiences some success). He talked about settlements. People talk about settlements. They say they are an impediment to peace. Let's think about this.
Settlers in the West Bank (aka Judea and Samaria) are cautioned that they may be required to dismantle their settlement or they may become residents in a Palestinian country. For whatever reason, they still settled. This irks the Palestinians. They would object to having a country with non-Palestinian residents. This in spite of the fact that a) this is the same logic (a small group of non-arabs in an prominently arab land) originally used to argue for the destruction of Israel, b) this is what they are asking Israel to accept with their "right of return" which, worse than just inviting a Palestinian minority to become citizens, would likely create a Palestinian majority in Israel which, since Israel really is a democracy, would mean the end of Israel as a Jewish State, and c) refusal or eliminating this would be called "ethnic cleansing" if it was any other ethnicity.