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Title: | The essential contradiction...... | |||
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| Name: | Johnboy | | |||
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| City: | Sydney | State: | Australia | | |
| Is between this concept: "Jerusalem being the capital of both Israel and Palestine, and divided on a demographic basis" and this one: "an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders, with the exception of large settlement blocs" The problem: most of those large settlement blocs were carefully sited so that their presence cuts East Jerusalem off from the rest of the West Bank. So if you "gift" those settlements to Israel then East Jerusalem is not a viable capital for Palestine. Yet if you insist that East Jerusalem is to be a viable capital of Palestine then those settlements become - in their turn - less viable, to the point of becoming rather pointless. Or, simply: if East Jerusalem is to be the capital of Palestine then many of those large Israeli settlements simply have to go. Because they are in the way, you see. Because they were DESIGNED to be in the way, you see.... |
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