Quote from dddooo:
That was offered to Arafat in 2000 together with 98% of palestinian territory and compensation for the remaining 2%. I guess that was not good enough...
When your [crazy] neighbor publicly threatens to kill you and your children and you see him buying a gun... I guess you'd have to assume that if he really meant to kill your family he would not be openly talking about it in public, you therefore are safe and there is no reason to do something about your neighbor "just in case".
. yeah, can't remember the exact terms, from memory the bone of contention was the 'right of return', not a small problem... but yeah probably not arafat's best decision to reject that deal...
. appreciate the comeback... i'm not the one who says do nothing by the way, just that bombing seems to be america's natural response to everything lately, and that doesn't strike me as being any smarter than anything ahmadinejad says... and if my neighbour needs 3 years to go buy his gun honestly i am not exactly going to panic but hey, i'm not american....
. now let me make a few more friends... i just dug that up and that made me smile...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4510922.stm
particularly the horrified response from the ex-colonial powers, i mean, of course, who wants the hot potato??

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thing is, the zionist thinkers even before 1900 did look at a few options as to where to establish the zionist state, even parts of africa were seriously considered, but thats pretty irrelevant now... anyway, going to bed now ;-) minna, oyasumi nasai!