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Stan, Israeli Arabs didn't settle in Israel, they lived there before the state existed. They didn't expropriate land from Jewish inhabitants in order to build their homes. As well, Israeli Arabs do not diminish Jewish Israeli standard of living by demanding segregated highways and a disproportionate amount of water supplies for their agriculture. You've seen my posts, you know I like the state of Israel, but I'm sorry, there is no equivalence there. I'm with you if you want to compare Palestinian refugees to Jews expelled from Arab states, but no comparison of Israeli Arabs to Jewish settlers can really stand without serious twisting of reality.
A final solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has to end with either a land trade or settlers withdrawing to Israel proper, anything else would simply be a peace that the strong imposes on the weak, which given the radicalism of Palestinian society, wouldn't last long until the next Intifada.
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