Originally Posted by ZFBoxcar

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.Arabs in the West Bank in Hebron, massacred Jews and then all loaded them onto buses and expelled them. They're still settling on those people's land. Has that been rectified? 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.If Israeli Arabs were being attacked on shared highways very often, you bet your bottom dollar they'd demand themselves some segregated highways. 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.I'm with you on the land trade, but if people want to push there being no Jews left in the Arab state, it sure as hell better go the other way around and absorb Arabs from Israel. Because the only real way to end an ethnic conflict is separation until those groups can start to overcome the mutual hatred of their parents. To those people in Ariel and Maaleh Adumim, that is their land and their home as far as they are concerned. There are people who have been born there and lived there their whole lives this generation. Telling them to go back to Israel proper is as foreign to them as telling West Bank Arabs to go back Jordan