You ignore that and go on to discuss the results of 20 years of "negotiations", during which almost 2000 Israeli civilians were murdered; during which the Palestinians have not compromised their position one iota (negotiations??); during which they spurned extremely advantageous offers (even if they did not meet their maximalist demands) from Barak and Olmert. Israel has strictly adhered to its commitments in Oslo. But Oslo is not, was not a "suicide pact" for the Israelis.

You speak of the "occupation of Palestinian land". Since you received an answer to your question, please answer these questions in turn:

Exactly when, and by what law, did Judea and Samaria become "Palestinian land"?
And why did it become "occupied"?
And why is it still "occupied"?

You ignore that and go on to discuss the results of 20 years of "negotiations", during which almost 2000 Israeli civilians were murdered; during which the Palestinians have not compromised their position one iota (negotiations??); during which they spurned extremely advantageous offers (even if they did not meet their maximalist demands) from Barak and Olmert. Israel has strictly adhered to its commitments in Oslo. But Oslo is not, was not a "suicide pact" for the Israelis.

You speak of the "occupation of Palestinian land". Since you received an answer to your question, please answer these questions in turn:

Exactly when, and by what law, did Judea and Samaria become "Palestinian land"?
And why did it become "occupied"?
And why is it still "occupied"?

65 years ago Israel wasn't there!

Or do you mean the 1948 borders? If you do why were the Muslims trying to destroy Israel then? If Israel wasn't in danger in 1967 those would have been the borders today. Can you say here that you think there should be a state of Israel as in 1948 or where would you like Israel to be?

If you don't want the existence of the state of Israel how can say what you have above?

65 years ago Israel wasn't there!

Or do you mean the 1948 borders? If you do why were the Muslims trying to destroy Israel then? If Israel wasn't in danger in 1967 those would have been the borders today. Can you say here that you think there should be a state of Israel as in 1948 or where would you like Israel to be?

If you don't want the existence of the state of Israel how can say what you have above?

Also do you not agree that if Israel felt safe from attack by other countries on her border a deal with all is more likely to be agreed upon.

After all, Israel only pre-emptively launched the 1967 war as she felt threatened by the build up of surrounding forces who had avowed to destroy Israel. If such a threat had not existed the 1948 borders would still be in place and the settlements would not exist now.

Correct me if I am wrong but the root question is not the size or shape of Israel but if Israel should exist at all. The territories captured in 1967 are buffer zones to make Israel more defensible.

I am wondering – Perhaps Jerusalem could become a non aligned city state like The Vatican, jointly governed by Muslims, Jews and Christians as it is important to all religions.

Arabs/Muslims say because at some point in time (when Israel was under occupation and rule of Muslim countries) they were the majority, they should own all or a big chunk of Israel. This argument is useless for the following reasons:

1. The last Muslim country that ruled and occupied Israel was Turkey. Turkey (the Ottoman Empire) imposed severe restrictions on Jewish immigration to Israel, but actively invited Muslims from other parts of the Ottoman Empire to settle in Israel, including Circassians and Bosnians. As a result, Arabs/Muslims became the majority. However, even then the land was mostly empty as reported by 18th-century reports from the British archaeologist Thomas Shaw; French author and historian Count Constantine Volney (Travels through Syria and Egypt, 1798); the mid-19th-century writings of Alphonse de Lamartine (Recollections of the East, 1835); Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad, 1867); and reports from the British Consul in Jerusalem (1857); because of Turkey’s neglect of the land. <u>Most Arabs entered Israel after Jews made the land prosperous.</u>.

2. There is no universal right of citizenship by birth. People who are born in countries that are not based on common law, e.g. Japan, Germany, and France, do not become citizens of those countries. So because some Arabs are born in Israel, they do not get the automatic right of ownership and citizenship of Israel.

3. Arabs caused the Holocaust. In 1920s and 1930s after Arabs rioted against Jews and murdered several hundred Jews, the British enacted the White Paper of 1939, which banned Jews from coming to Israel from 1939 to 1948. As a result, six million Jews were brutally murdered by Europeans because they could not come to Israel. Furthermore, Arabs collaborated with Nazis to massacre the Jews.

4. In 1948, when Arabs attacked Israel and captured the West Bank from Israel, Arabs expelled all Jews from the West Bank. So Israel has the right to expel all Arabs from the West Bank.

5. Before 1948, the West Bank and Gaza belonged to Jews, not Arabs, according to the Mandate for Palestine, which is a binding law, approved by the unanimous vote of all the 51 member countries of the League of Nations on July 24, 1922. <u>The Mandate for Palestine gave the exclusive right of <b>ownership</b> (Article 25) and <b>citizenship</b> (Article 7) of the West Bank, Gaza, and the rest of Israel to Jews, not Arabs.</u>.

6. After WWI the League of Nations in four other mandates gave to 17 million Arabs an area of 1,290,000 square miles, i.e. 99.9% of the land, including all the principal Arab and Muslim centers. However, the same League of Nations gave to Jews only 10,000 square miles, i.e. less than 0.1% of the land; yet Arabs want to get the little 0.1% land of Jews.

7. Israel is the ancestral home of Jews. Israel is not the ancestral home of Arabs/Muslims. Israelites were indigenous Canaanites, and <u>Hebrew is the only surviving Canaanite language.</u> However, Arabic is not a Canaanite language because Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula.

8. Arabs say because of Resolution 181 they own the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights. Resolution 181 was a non-binding recommendation to partition Israel, whose implementation hinged on acceptance by both parties – Arabs and Jews. Since Arabs did not accept the resolution, it became null and void ab initio.

9. Philistines were Greeks who invaded the Gaza region of Israel more than 3,000 years ago, in 1100 BCE. Then after Jews' revolt against the Roman occupation of Israel, the Romans changed the name Israel to "Provincia Palestina" in 135 CE. That name stuck to Israel since then. Now Arabs claim that they are Palestinians and native of Israel. They are not Philistines or Palestinians; they are simply Arabs.

10. If Arabs/Muslims are permitted to stay in Israel, they will be a serious threat to Jews because Arabs breed like rabbits. Once they become majority, they will join their comrades in the Gaza, West Bank, and the rest of Arab/Muslim world and will slaughter Jews.

For the above reasons Arabs/Muslims should be deported to their own country.