Originally Posted by Aranthus

There are three problems with your argument. First, Israel has de facto set forth its claim by building the security barrier around it. Second, even if the border is not completely defined it doesn't matter, because what Israel is asking for is not recognition of a boundary, but rather of the Jewish people's right to exist under any circumstance. Third, when the UN proposed its Partition Plan in November, 1947, the boundaries were all defined, there were to have been two states which could have recognized each other, and there were no refugees. What was the Palestinian excuse then for not recognizing Israel's right to exist? Unfortunately, the article is just a litany of excuses, when the real reason for not recognizing Israel is that the Palestinians (and the Arab/Muslim world in general) simply don't want a Jewish State at all.