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In reply to the discussion: Israelis are understandably not thrilled with the Iran deal [View all]karynnj
(60,772 posts)Not to mention, if the West Bank is Palestine - why are so many people working hard to achive a two state solution? Not to mention, if it is Palestine, why are the settlers voting in another country - Israel?
The fiction that the Palestinians in the West Bank are a separate country ignores that countries have boundaries - what are the boundaries? Big question - when you have an Israeli settlement on the hilltop surrounded by Palestinian villages that have been there for centuries in the valleys - what country are you in when you step into the settlement? This is the reality that has made negotiations for a two state solution ultimately unsuccessful each time -- and why Israel has never put out their version of what the map should be.
They complain that there are Arab states that create maps calling the entire area Palestine, but there are also Israeli maps that no longer include the "green line". I think that the decision decades ago to build settlements on occupied (or as Israel prefers "disputed"
land was a disaster to the culture and country that Israel used to be.