World Affairs Board - View Single Post - Without 1967, would there be a Palestine today?

**Shek** · 06-16-2006, 22:02 PM

I've made the assertion before that without Israel seizing the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, the process of moving towards a Palestinian state wouldn't even be on the table today.

I think that the record is clear that pre-1967, the Palestinian issue was only a false flag to attract anti-Israel attention. If the Arab world was serious about a Palestinian state, then Jordan and Egypt both would have provided for Palestinian rule of Gaza and the West Bank.

Post-1967, my take is that it then became easy for Arab governments to truly call for a Palestinian state, for at that point, they were offering up something they no longer had.

This brings me to my question - had Israel not decided to seize Gaza, West Bank, Golan, etc. in 1967, or had the diplomatic duel at the UN proceeded differently such that the West Bank remained part of Jordan and the Gaza Strip remained part of Egypt, where would the issue of a Palestinian state be today? Would it be buried in the territorial integrity of Egypt and Jordan, or would these two countries have provided these territories to some Palestinian authority for self-governance?

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Shek *Military Professional* Moderator Join Date: 02-23-05 Location: Krblachistan Posts: 7,793 Country:	Without 1967, would there be a Palestine today? I've made the assertion before that without Israel seizing the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, the process of moving towards a Palestinian state wouldn't even be on the table today. I think that the record is clear that pre-1967, the Palestinian issue was only a false flag to attract anti-Israel attention. If the Arab world was serious about a Palestinian state, then Jordan and Egypt both would have provided for Palestinian rule of Gaza and the West Bank. Post-1967, my take is that it then became easy for Arab governments to truly call for a Palestinian state, for at that point, they were offering up something they no longer had. This brings me to my question - had Israel not decided to seize Gaza, West Bank, Golan, etc. in 1967, or had the diplomatic duel at the UN proceeded differently such that the West Bank remained part of Jordan and the Gaza Strip remained part of Egypt, where would the issue of a Palestinian state be today? Would it be buried in the territorial integrity of Egypt and Jordan, or would these two countries have provided these territories to some Palestinian authority for self-governance? __________________ "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3