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[Ken Burch]

17. OK, 1947 instead of 1948.

We still have no reason to assume that Ben-Gurion, who had been operating on the assumption that there could be no possible relationship with any of the Arabs OTHER than that of perpetual war, would have permitted a viable Palestinian state to be established.

Ben-Gurion's entire organizing principle was the prevention of peace, of the maintenance of a permanent myth of "crisis". And he was constantly appeasing the territorial maximalists.

SO, again, how can you be so certain the Palestinians would have gained a state, or gained anything other than what they have now?

And even if, even IF you were right about 1947...can you truly say that what happened then, SEVENTY YEARS AGO, justifies EVERYTHING, or even anywhere close to the majority of things, that have been done to Palestinians since that date?

It certainly can't be cited to justify the freaking Occupation, since the Occupation of the West Bank does nothing but make the situation more and more unstable.

OR that there is any possible logic in the assumption that, if the problem was the Palestinians having an issue with Jews living there(they got on fairly well with the indigenous non-Zionist Jewish community)that an endless process of collectively punishing and humiliating all of them for the actions of those who might resist violently was EVER going to cause the Palestinian people to accept the notion that the whole thing was THEIR fault? Why stick with humiliation when insisting on humiliation is the ONE thing guaranteed to prevent these people from ever changing in the ways you would like them to change?

Also...really, when you come down to it...we all know Israel as a country is never going to be ended-we all know that-how much difference does it really make what words Palestinians say about it? Why is it not enough for them to simply say(as the PLO said in 1994) that the recognize "the State of Israel"? Why the bloody minded insistence that they recognize it using the EXACT words Netayanhu, Prime Minister-for-Life, the man whose party will never ever be replaced in government by any party with humane, democratic values, insists that they must say?