re: #270 SanFranciscoZionist

Yeah. The issue with breaking new ground in the West Bank is that, at some point in the forseeable future, the land there might change hands. (I know some people living there who would smack me for saying that.)

At this point we end up with the Gaza situation all over again, with the army having to pull people out of established communities who don’t want to go.

But Ramat Shlomo is next door to French Hill, forgoodnessakes.

And to be clear (and as I said in yesterday’s thread), I think Ramat Shlomo is not a problem and will be part of Israel in a land swap in any reasonable two state solution. The West Bank settlers, largely knit-cap wearing Americans from Borough Park, Brooklyn are a big problem. They spit on my friends in the Army who are sent there to protect them. They pick fights with the Palestinians. They drain Israel’s treasury. They were the ones who supported Rabin’s assassin.