Agreed. But if there is to be a solution, it will require the Israelis themselves to wrestle with the complexities situation. From a Jewish perspective, they have no place else to go, and Hamas reinforced their fears that they are not safe in their own homes. (That in No Way justifies, what is happening in their name in Gaza.)
Not to the Israeli’s. Goodman explains:“On one hand, the territories are not stolen land that came under Israel’s control by immoral means, so they are not in themselves occupied. On the other… Israel imposes military rule on a Palestinian population that has no say over the state’s decisions, so the Palestinians are a nation that lives under occupation. The conclusion is that the territories are not occupied, but the Palestinian people are. This situation is what confounds Israeli discussions of the status of Judea and Samaria. Both the left and right are correct. The left is correct about the people and the right is correct about the land. Listen carefully and sensitively to the left, and you will hear that leftists are talking almost exclusively about the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Listen carefully and sensitively to the Israeli right, and you will hear that right-wingers are talking almost exclusively about territory that was never unjustly occupied. The left makes unconscious inferences from the people to the land; the right makes unconscious inferences from the land to the people. Since both sides are correct, they are also both mistaken, and neither can express the complexity of the situation….”
Well well, Toady is back to harass from his reunion with his kin who hang in the threads of Garfield. They, too, must have tired of his witless, redundant bile.
That’s certainly the case with the true believers. They, however, are the most completely duped.