""It is legitimate for Israel to hold that new border.

It is discriminatory to say that only one ethnic group may live there.
Why not Jews? ""

It should not be ilegal for individuals to settle there and it certainly isn't a case of wanting to ethnically cleanse an existing population.....

HEY! Wait a minute!

It IS a case ot ethnic cleansing, BY THE SETTLERS, of nearly two million of the existing Palestian population, forcing them into only 39% of the West Bank while 367,000 Israelis live in the other 60%, and to keep the Palestinians at bay they buid a wall and defences including an exclusion zone on the Palestinian side enforced by armed soldiers with permission to shoot.

In fact they have better defences aginst the Palestinians than against Jordan, the reason why they claim the right to hold that border.

That's like England in 1940, faced with German aggression, fortifying the Scottish border. Mind you Hadrian got there first.

They also ethnically cleansed vast olive groves which were the only livelihood of the now very cleansed owners.

Don T.