Originally Posted by
Minoosh
So you're relying on the rule of so? I personally am not uniformly against negotiating with terrorists, even if I agreed with that description. It's just a form of asymmetrical warfare employed for achieving political goals. At least it used to be; now it seems to be violence for the hell of it. Or an orgasm for end-of-the-world types.
I just wondered if anyone had tried it. Territorial disputes can be resolved. Holy wars can't. How many deaths do you suppose Yasser Arafat caused? And were most of them Israeli or Palestinian? I get that you're angry but I don't cede the moral high ground to anyone in this dispute, except Israelis (and Arabs) committed to peacefully changing Israel's domestic policy re: occupied territories.
I can only hope that the rule of unintended consequences kicks in and heads off or at least mitigates the disaster this has the potential to be. Could anything cause Israel to walk back its claim to all of Jerusalem?
Are Trump's Saudi pals going to pat him on the back for this?
Exactly god gave the entire region to the jewish people and they will take it no matter how long the current residents have been living there. It is just like how the trail of tears was a high point in american history, Jackson wouldn't let laws of man or morals stand in the way of getting the land god had given to the american people from the savages. Same thing with taking Jerusalem from the muslims, Israel would never let boarders stand in the way of what is theirs by grace of god.