I thought the points about the intransigence of Palestinian leaders to take what was on the table, 95% of the West Bank, was pertinent.
The 95% was a reservation. No borders, no ports... An Abu Dhabi? Bullshit, a Bantustan by any other name.
I understand (second hand I admit) from someone that was in the room, that it was the Israelis that kept moving the goalposts. But neither here nor there, if the 95% was really an offer, Israelis wouldn't have gobbled up nearly the entire West Bank at this point. How do you negotiate over a pizza while people on one side of the table are eating it. Again, look up Sharon's Pastrami Sandwich plan
If Israel wanted peace, that policy wouldn't exist, and clearly it does.
If Israel wanted peace, there wouldn't be a law allowing any random Jew from New Jersey to file suit to evict a Palestinian family in East Jerusalem.
If Israel wanted peace, an American Congresswoman named Tlaib would be allowed to visit her fucking grandmother outside of Jerusalem, without kissing Netanyahu's fascist ass.
Bill is very funny... He's clever, dry... good timing; he's got great chops, but he gets his facts wrong. The Palestinians didn't go to war with Israel. Their Arab neighbors did, and while it can sometimes be disputed as to who attacked whom, we should be able to agree the Palestinians have never had an army.
Bill's point seems to be, "you lost; get over it", but Israel isn't done, and Bill doesn't explain what sort of accommodation 5 million plus Palestinians are supposed to come to with the voracious beast that's currently feasting on them.
Let's talk about Israeli apartheid in the "law".
There is an extremely large population of formerly Mexican nationals in the American Southwest. America seized that territory, but the people there were still there.
Palestinians were given no such options. Hundreds of thousands were simply expelled from the partitioned Israel and their legal right of return denied. It's a huge sticking point, and there's no question or even suggestion that the conquered people in the territories, many of them the same people, will ever be offered citizenship. Ask yourself then, what's the plan here?
And there's one last inconsistency with fact... This was the UN partition map, not the one Bill Maher shows. Bill appears to be showing the 1967 borders. The territories are considerably smaller, and Israel isn't even satisfied with that. From the river to the sea? More like from the sea to the river. Israel has the might to exist. Right has nothing to do with this.
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