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Originally Posted by hardjoko
Why let the people choose? Why not let land owners choose? The jews want to buy the land fair and squarely.
Living under muslim rules often sucks.
I would be for palestinian if they want monetary compensation for their lost land. I would side with palestinian if they allow jews to buy land and do biz in palestinian.
The issue is not one sided. While not perfect, Israel is not too discriminatory. Arab in Israel earn more than arab in arabs. In Palestines, jews can't even live. If I have to choose between an inch of land going to Israel or going to Palestine, it's an obvious choice.
That being said, kicking PRIVATE owners out of their land would set bad precedent. But it's POLITICAL ownership, and not private ownership they're fighting about. For the POLITICAL ownership, I'd go for Israel.
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In Palestine Jews and Arabs lived side by side until the Jews wanted to change the country into two separate states. There were even Jewish travel agencies that pushed Palestine as a tourist destination before it became Israel. The reason that the Palestinians don't live side by side with the Israeli isn't because the Palestinians don't want them living there, it is because Israel gives them benefits for living in Israel. That said, there are tons of Jews living inside the Palestinian territories in settlements across Palestine.
An Arab in Israel will earn more in Israel than in Palestine because Israel doesn't give Palestinians a chance to let their economy flourish. Palestinians don't have equal rights to Israel so the idea that Israel isn't discriminatory is just wrong. There are roads that are Israeli only that Palestinians aren't allowed to use, there are areas where Palestinians aren't allowed to live, marriages between an Israeli and a Palestinian aren't even recognized in Israel.
About selling land to each other, I can't just sell the land my house is on here in Canada to another country. That isn't how it happens, I can sell the house and land to another person but the land is still on Canadian ground.
There are clear boundaries that almost everyone in the world (except Israel) feels that Israel and Palestine should follow. The Palestinians are happy with what the world wants, it is the Israelis that constantly refuse and reject negotiations based on those 1967 borders.