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In reply to the discussion: Israel deploys 'Star Wars' missile killer system [View all]guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)that a successor governing coalition would reverse course on a 50 year policy of constant expansion via land theft? I have no such feelings.
As to your point about past Israeli Governments:
Moishe Dayan:
Early 1970's: "We
have no solution
You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like
dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process
leads."
Rafael Eitan:
May 3, 1983:"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle."
Dov Weisglass:
October 8, 2004:
"The significance of the [Gaza Strip disengagement] plan is the freezing of the peace process," Dov Weisglass told Haaretz newspaper, adding the US had given its backing.
"
I could continue, but I feel my point is made that the unwritten but official policy of numerous Israeli Governments is that there will never be a Palestinian State.
Edited to add:
Allow me to add one more quotation from Yitzhak Laor, an Israeli poet:
Israel is engaged in a long war of annihilation against Palestinian society. The objective is to destroy the Palestinian nation and drive it back into pre-modern groupings based on the tribe, the clan and the enclave. This is the last phase of the Zionist colonial mission, culminating in inaccessible townships, camps, villages, districts, all of them to be walled or fenced off, and patrolled by a powerful army which, in the absence of a proper military objective, is really an over-equipped police force, with F16s, Apaches, tanks, artillery, commando units and hi-tech surveillance at its disposal.