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Re: A permanent solution?
The two state ''solution'' does not seem viable to me. This is due to how much Palestinian land has been absorbed into Israel, to the point that the West Bank and Gaza are divided by a big gulf of Israeli land. I cannot foresee the Israeli public agreeing to return to 1967 borders. Furthermore, sharing Jerusalem would be very difficult; it would ...
Posted to Fighting Words by ishmaeldaro on February 24, 2009
Hamas 'Hijacked' Palestine
The dear author has taken the view, that Hamas has somehow effected a coup within Palestine, when in fact they were democratically elected in 2006. Unfortunately this also is a meme widely proffered by the talking heads of the Israeli PR machine. How else to deal with the Palestinians? - we cannot talk to Hamas they are ... <insert fearsome ...
Posted to Fighting Words by kentis on January 12, 2009
The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008