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Thread #71513   Message #1224728
Posted By: GUEST,C-Watch
13-Jul-04 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Arab victim of Palestinian terrorism
Subject: RE: BS: Arab victim of Palestinian terrorism
I support the building of a wall separating Israel from the West Bank along the green line. Most of the world would not argue with this idea. Build the wall. But build it on land that is not in dispute (along the Green Line). Anything else is thinly disguised theft.

One of the problems with your solution is that the Palestinians themselves do not accept the Green Line. The map of "Palestine" that is taught to Palestinian school childred includes Tel Aviv, Haifa and Be'er Sheva. They are taught that all of Israel proper is occupied territory.

Furthermore, the Green Line is an artificial construct based on where the fighting stopped in 1949. What makes more sense to me, are the land swaps that the Israeli left, and some Palestinians, embrace. These swaps would mean that the border would be redrawn so that several Israeli settlements in the border area would become part of Israel and abd several Arab villages that are within Israel, but near the border, could become part of a Palestinian state. Under that plan, Israeli settlements that are deeper in Palestinian territory would be abandoned or fall under Palestinian soverignty and Arab-Israeli villages not very close to the border would remain part of Israel.

In any case, thanks to the recent ruling by Israel's Supreme Court, the wall will be rerouted where it was shown to infringe on legitimate Palestinian territory.