I live about an hour from Gaza, out of rocket range for now. So everything here is quiet and peaceful for both Jews and Arabs. Before the wall, we had suicide bombs. Now we don't. The wall is ugly but it works
You talk lies and ********, but not completely...you make a good point here:
'Before the intifada there were no walls and there was free travel and employment for West Bank arabs all over israel'...good point, and also there were many Palestinians who were starting businesses on the West Bank, as many Palestinians had sent children to America to study, and they returned with an education and some business sense & deas...in fact, I read a story in an Israeli paper about a proposed casino/hotel deal in Jericho, no less, that was to be an Israeli/Arab partnership...but what happened then?...
well, you had Arafat, who was a gangster, and this was a problem...but, if you remember Barak, through Clinton, offered Arafat a plan for a Palestinian 'state' that would have been a failure from the start, as it broke up the West Bank into a 'balkanized' territory...Barak also offered no compromise on the refugee problem and
definitely no compromise on Jerusalem...well, if Arafat had accepted this he would have been killed, quickly...so then, what happens?...the piece of human waste, ben Sharon, goes up to the Al-Asqa mosque with his storm troopers and all hell breaks loose!...now, you have your Intifada...you know, I have sympathy for the Israelis, knowing their fear of
being overun by the Arab demographic bomb...but, you must remember, the Ashkenazim
who founded Israel were the gang-leaders and ruthless ones who caused so much agitation in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland & Ukraine, and these ones live by the double-cross and triple-cross...unless you dispose of this element, the Israeli future is very shaky.