The Israelis offered the Palestinians everything they asked for. . . and the Palestinians bit their hand

Submitted by Sully (United States), Mar 21, 2007 at 20:04

You can look it up Octavio

After defeating multiple attempts by the Arabs to drive them into the sea the Israelis negotiated reasonable settlements with Jordan, Syria and Egypt , giving up in each case territory that the Arabs would never have been able to gain back by force.

And then President Clinton brought the Israelis and Palestinians together and the Israelis offered to turn over virtually all of the land outside their original borders. The Palestinians turned the offer down cold, even though that was supposedly their basis for negotiations. More recently, the Israelis evacuated Gaza without condition, and the Palestinians responded by attacking across the new border, delaying only long enough to act like rampaging savages and destroy all economic assets the Israelis had left behind. Then they elected a radical government and proceeded to whine when the west cut off economic aid that it never should have been giving in the first place.

And through all of this the Palestinians have continued to refuse to recognize the right of Israel to exist.

I admire the Israelis for their restraint. Negotiating with the Palestinians is worse than useless because it debases the very concept of diplomacy.

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