If Netanyahu stays in power, should the U.S. continue to provide military aid to Israel?

[Ken Burch]

43. Look, ok, the Palestinians should be allowed out of the camps.

But the whole Likudnik demand that they just move to other Arab countries is insulting. Palestinians are not "generic Arabs", and even if they did move to other countries, they'd stay just as committed to coming home as they are now. They would never do what Netanyahu wants them to do and say "ok, we admit that the whole 'Palestinian' thing was never real".

For one, Palestinian identity as a nation has always been real. It's just silly for anyone to deny that.

Two, they were wronged by being driven out in 1948 and 1967. If they aren't to have physical RoR, they at least need to have their connection to Palestine officially affirmed and to be given apologies and acknowledgments that they didn't deserve to be driven out. Those two things are crucial.

Also, there should probably be French-style "overseas department" seats in the Palestinian legislature for those Palestinians who aren't going to be allowed to physically go home.

Nobody has the right to tell them to "just get over it".

Any more than anyone had the right to tell the Askenazim who arrived in the U.S between the 1880's and 1924 to "just get over" getting driven out of the Pale by the pogroms.

People's pain and people's reality must always be acknowledged-that's the only way you end wars.

And as I just said, I wasn't calling for the U.S. to "force a mass migration". Don't misrepresent my views.