re: #143 recusancy

You do realize that Israel was going to engage in land swaps for many of the communities near the Green Line and swap them for other territory to make up the land differences - it isn’t about the settlements.

What is striking though is that these plans essentially call for an elimination of a Jewish presence in the West Bank areas that would be ceded to a future Palestinian state. Palestinian Arabs can continue living in Israel and are entitled to rights and protections, but the PA can’t guarantee the same for Jews that would end up on the wrong side of a line on a map. In fact, Oslo and the followup documents pretty much admitted as much when they set aside A B and C areas that limited Israeli access to regions and imposed criminal sanctions on Israelis who entered the wrong area.

Settlements can be dismantled and/or transferred. It happened in Gaza. It happened in the Sinai, and it could potentially happen with Syria in the Golan, but the Gaza experience shows that giving up land for peace when there isn’t a partner in peace is a fool’s errand.