[quote=Hatfield]It’s unfortunate that AIPAC has made it impossible for any US politician to take any kind of remotely balanced approach to the region.
The situation is a total, intractable mess. At the same time, when you carve yourself a country out of somebody else’s land, you gotta expect there’s gonna be trouble. It would be like Texas gaining its independence by seceding from the union, only to have France come and claim it because parts of Texas were once French.[/quote]
Not sure that’s entirely true as the Jews there were buying up lots of lland.i don’t know how much extra they were going to get beyond their purchased sections.
What about the idea that land tends to go to the strongest hands who develop it best. The Israelis developed way better than the Arabs kinda like we did a lot more with the continent than those laid back native americans. Sure it’s not fair but it’s the way of the world.