Will fact and truth ever get over diplomatic nicety ALL of the time? .. there is no settlement in places where people live together while more settlements are designed toward a Greater Israel .. isn't that still the Zionist deal?
Expansionism (or The Greater Israel).. one bit ..
From the beginning, Zionists advocated a "Jewish State" not just in Palestine, but also in Jordan, southern Lebanon, and the Golan Heights as well. In 1918 Ben-Gurion described the future "Jewish state's" frontiers in details as follows:
"to the north, the Litani river [in southern Lebanon], to the northeast, the Wadi 'Owja, twenty miles south of Damascus; the southern border will be mobile and pushed into Sinai at least up to Wadi al-'Arish; and to the east, the Syrian Desert, including the furthest edge of Transjordan" (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 87) Click here to view the "Greater Israel" map that was submitted by the Zionists to the peace conference after WWI.
Israelis vote for status quo on West Bank .. one bit ..
THE two-state solution has been given a late stay of execution. The extremist pro-settler Right did not triumph in yesterday's Israeli election, as the polls had suggested it would.
With 99.5 per cent of the vote counted, the right-bloc had 60 seats and the centre-left bloc 60.
In recent weeks, the idea of a Palestinian state alongside Israel has taken a pounding, led by the pro-settler party Jewish Home. Under Naftali Bennett, Jewish Home ran on a "Greater Israel" vision, saying it was "vehemently opposed" to a Palestinian state and in favour of annexing 60 per cent of the West Bank.
But another charismatic figure, a leather jacket-wearing television journalist, has spoilt the settlers' party. Yair Lapid, 49, a centre-left commentator who has frequently spoken out against Jewish settlements and in favour of a Palestinian state, became a major new force in Israeli politics yesterday, winning 19 seats, while Jewish Home won only 11 or 12.
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