From "THE BEAST" article;
"The borders established in 1949 (which were the borders at the start of June 1967) were therefore particularly arbitrary—with Arabs and Jews asserting claims and counter-claims every which way. Just as Palestinians do not believe they forfeited their rights to the land Israel won in June 1967, how can they argue that Jews forfeited their rights to the West Bank when it was not part of Israel after 1949? Jews continued to pine for the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, for the overrun settlement (meaning community) of Gush Etzion, for the ancient Jewish city of Hebron."
I suggest that people compare the maps of agreed Palestine with today's maps.
Palestine is now a defensive and beleaguered ghetto undergoing a punishing and inhuman blockade.
This has been brought about by a consistent and long-term expansionist policy in which the Israelis have seized land and driven out the legal occupants.
When forced, they have returned pieces of the least `habitable land "as a gesture of compromise", cherry-picking the best for themselves.
The seized land has been long recognised as being 'illegal', or 'disputed' by the U.N. and most of the rest of the world and has only been able to be used for Israeli settlements through the continual use of the U.S. veto.
The 1949 borders remain the legal ones and only negotiation can change them.
Israel, by its present aggressive actions has shown they are not interested in any negotiations that will not give them the right to the land they have seized - as 'Insanity' pointed out "They won. It happens" - land-grabbing by bomb and gun.
It is this that this 'band of brothers' refuse to discuss here, why would they want to, present Israeli action is indefensible and they know it?
Jim Carroll