Orca of Peace

because the Pals didn't have an armed force

i have no idea what this means in American talk. Parse it please.

the influence of the Arab nations is being dramatically exaggerated in this prose. No one controls the Pals except for Israel, the IDF army is boss, the rest of your prose hasn't been relevant for decades. Egypt and Jordan "greedily" took the Gaza/WB areas? no. That was just how deeply their armies happened to penetrate in the 1948 years, also coincides where the Arab populations existed in majority at the time. Wasn't a "greedy" plan at all, with "no right to do so". Israel wasn't some kind of liberation hero for "kicking them out" in 1967. This sort of ideology is ultra right wing zionism where the Pals don't even have a right their own homes, bedrooms and bathrooms and only exist there due to good will of the Jews come came from all over the world from some magic time machine of 2000 years to claim what belongs to the glorious people. All Arabs should go back to Mecca. Basically, this idea of the Pals as tools and pawns is very dated and no longer relevant. But if someone wants to live in 1981, so be it.

how have they been used as pawns? I don't think anyone has much real leverage on the Palestinians anymore since Israel controls everything and the PA money comes from the US and international aid agencies. Qatar gives money to Gaza but doesn't control them. The Pals have been quite independent from the other Arab nations for a very long time. So this whole " pawn thing" is last relevant from the late 70s/ early 80s , the days of Arafat's power.

ironically the Israeli impetus is even more ancient history than 1917 or 1948, but more like 70AD. the Pals are pawns of whom? Their leaders are puppets of whom? your position is part of the problem, as if the victims are so because of themselves and the Israelis have absolutely nothing to do with anything.

regardless of a political deal or not, there is no justification for the brutal military dictatorship and apartheid system enabled by the settlements -- which makes a 2 state solution impossible. You know the Jews are burying their dead in the West Bank? They are never leaving.

Israeli born Jews have that as their home. But this isnt' about destroying Israel as you are implying, it's about the occupation now and it's brutality/apartheid system.

even in Gaza they have lost control of the border crossings to the Palestinan Authority . You don't seem to know much, so i won't engage with you any longer.

how does that show anti-semitism?

with a terribly amateurish understanding of the subject matter.

nothing anti-semitic about this, but that's your obsession.

actually this is not correct

Hamas is not an Arab state.

Jews were killing Arab villagers long before 1948. And "israelites"? the Jewish population was imposed on them by western powers so they were right to fight them.

strange how the focus is on the Israeli Arabs, 1.5 million , and never on the actual Palestinians of the WB 2.0 million. Throwing rocks at you is understandable, since you are their enemy.

same here when South Africa was a thing of the 1980s.. the cultured civilized whites against the subhuman uneducated savage Negras.

as if anyone has a realistic chance of destroying Israel. This is a lame excuse for Israel to continue to build settlements then whine about how the other side, who is completely powerless, is forcing the issue.

all Arab states accepted Israel long time ago

Boston's defense is really good. Really sad to see Lbj go out like this, hope he leaves for Houston. I thought the neck injury dramatically slowed him down as he was on pace for a legit 55. Had they won tonight, i believe they're up 3-1.

everything changes in life. Israel was once a struggling state surrounded by hostile enemies. Now even Saudi Arabia sounds like an AIPAC convention, Egypt regularly screws the Gazans and their Arab brothers have completely abandoned them in favor of US $ and Israel political support (even a covert military pact). Israel is now a brutal racist military thugocracy which deserves no sympathy, running an apartheid system while pretending to be the victim. Not sure what can be done, they control the Congress and the media. The future is very bleak for the Pals.

you have a very poor grasp of the issue and of reality.

this is a common mistake, completely ignoring the west bank. In essence, Israel has been a one-state since the 1970s when the settler movement took off and Jewish civilians moved into Arab majority areas for all time. So a 2 state solution is no longer physically possible and the Arabs are denied political sovereignty first, completely controlled by Jews, and typecast as the villian. The apartheid exists because they are subject to a state that denies them all political rights. Ultimately the Jews are the boss and the Arabs have no control.

It was not immediately clear why the border officials, who are employed by the Palestinian Authority, would not accept the shipments. the PA hates Hamas and wants to hurt the Gaza population, even though many support the PA there, to weaken Hamas.

GS cut off the passing lanes as HOU whips the ball around

Israel doesn't need to recognize it, reality simply exists.