I’ve endless sympathy for the people of Palestine. They have been used as pawns by so many for so long. Hundreds of thousands of them were displaced when the Ottomans and the British decided to carve up the land. So were hundreds of thousands of Israelis. And I have never seen any Arab group anywhere advocate letting any of those Israelis and their descendants back in.
But Israelis have Israel. Do Arabs have any countries they can call their own? Obviously I’m missing the point. It is not enough to have Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Qatar, Oman, Algeria, Tunisia, Somalia, Sudan, UAE. They are simply incomplete without Israel.
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Can we have your unique perspective on Obama's call for 1967 borders?
-fab4fan
I don't think it makes any difference what Obama says about the subject. His influence in the region will probably be no different than his predecessor's and successor's.
And even if Israel agreed, which it won't, Palestine never would. They've historically only taken an all or nothing stance.
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