Israel's willingness to live in "peace", respect boundaries and other citizens of the areas.

Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
Part 1, Making "facts on the ground"
By Edward S. Herman, 2001
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books. Some 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes in 1948-1949, and since then scores of thousands more have been pushed out by force, their houses demolished or taken over by Israeli Jews (not Israeli Arabs).
Israel honoring peace

"Every school child knows that there is no such thing in history as a final arrangement -- not with regard to the regime, not with regard to borders, and not with regard to international agreements." -- Ben Gurion, War Diaries, 12/03/1947 following Israel's "acceptance" of the U.N. Partition of 11/29/1947 (Simha Flapan, "Birth of Israel," p.13)

On April 17, 2000 "The United Nations Human Rights Committee demands a halt to Israeli settlement construction in the occupied territories. Thirty-one of the fifty-three member countries vote in favor, while the United States votes against. Nineteen countries, including seven European Union states, abstain." (2000, From

"In strategic terms, the settlements (in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) are of no importance." What makes them important, he added, was that "they constitute an obstacle, an unsurmountable obstacle to the establishment of an independent Arab State west of the river Jordan." --Binyamin Begin

And, the rest of them are as easily refutable. One wonders why such distinguished Americans are either so ill informed or so willing to sound ill informed.

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