Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[brainlessone]

the citizenship rules are biarrre, but 18% to 22% of the population is non jewish and are citizens. I think for every rule there must be an exception.

I am quite confused about why you refer to land first obtained in the 48 war by Jordan which was previously British and before that Ottoman, and then annexed by jordan and and then ceded by jordan to israel in a peace agreement as "Palestinian lands ". I never heard of the word palestinian until the late eighties unless it was connected with the PLO. The word used in documents going back 25 years is arabs. I have even reviewed UN documents going back many years to try find any references to palestinian land or peoples. the first mention is in reference to arafat. but recognition of a separate Palestinian people or land only slowly comes in to play in the eighties, mostly as propaganda, because if true, then it could not grow from pure air. When the west bank was part of jordan, there was no palestinian people or need for palestinian statehood or mention of the people in the west bank as being distinct from jordanians. If you can find better references please post them. In fact the original letters to weizman from the sheik make reference to the jews as being palestine inhabitants, whereas the arabs are separate

I think the propaganda has had its effect.

And no, the capital has been in west jerusalem for many years before 1967. I was there. It is however very instructive to try to come to grips with why it has not been recognized as such