I guess I was being facetious. In other words, why does everyone expect Israel to give up land, when nobody else is willing to? The other Arab states claim they just want their "Palestinian brothers" to have a homeland, yet they won't give an ounce of their own land to settle the issue. Israel has done some really shady shit, but I gotta side with them on this one.
The people that claim Israel stole the land - that goes for everybody, everywhere. At some point in time, pretty much every nation took their land by force. I'm sure the Visigoths want their land back too but at some point it's time to move on.
People of Visigoth ancestry in Spain get the same rights as everyone else there. There's no Visigoth region in Spain that 100 countries recognize as a state and that Spain allows to at least partially govern themselves. Yeah, there aren't Visigoth terrorists in Spain, either.
Everyone from Reagan to Bush has asked Israel to stop expanding their settlements, so this isn't just liberal hippie kumbaya.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyLFawiGkE0"]YouTube - CBS News - 60 Minutes - Is Peace Out Of Reach? Part 1 of 2[/ame]
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Here's a more optimistic article :
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/world/middleeast/17westbank.html?_r=2