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Originally Posted by Bill Haywood
All the things you list were given by the PLO. If that had resulted in "all manner of additional land" and a state, support for Hamas would have evaporated. But Oslo did not provide for a state or an end to the occupation. Both Labor and Likud have specified they weren't granting a state.
Does "all manner of additional land" mean a withdrawal of squatters from Area C? Because that's not on the table.
Bill the withdrawal from Gaza was immediately met with the second Intifada, Gilad Shalit, the starts of tunnel warfare, and 140 suicide bombs on civilian positions (in just 3 years). Where do YOU see the part where 2 state got a fair chance after the withdrawal from Gaza? Because that's a fantasy.
We've done this exact dance over and over in this thread.
And yes it would be trivially simple (relative to much harder tasks) to remove settlers where a negotiation warranted it for the greater good. Know how I know? Because they did exactly that with Gaza and other Israeli settlers before. When TRUE peace with a willing participant is laid out, the settlers will be moved. Till now, no good faith counter-party to this has existed. If you'd like to see documentaries on the painful process that Israel already undetook to move settlers in the past, I'll happily link you. We're talking removing fellow Israelis by force who'd chained themselves to things. They did that.