LA Times Op-ed: Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered

[nicky g]

As usual you are completely wrong. The reason you are so often wrong, in case you wish to rectify the situation, is that you persist in arguing about topics you know nothing about and prefer to learn nothing about.

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The CHECKPOINTS are for Arabs wishing to enter ISREALI territory.


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No they aren't. While there are of course such checkpoints, there are hundreds of checkpoints within Palestinian territory. There are checkpoints at the entrance and exit of virtually every major Palestinian town in teh West Bank. One town, Qalqilya, has only one entrance/exit for the entire town. Palestinians have to go through numerous checkpoints to get from one part of Palestine to another as well as to enter israel (which the vast majority are totally barred from doing).


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Arabs come to Israel for work because the Arab leadership is too incompetant to nuture job growth in Arab lands.

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It is completely impossible to nurture economic activity in a territory where freedom of movement is completely non-existant and where the occupying powers can and do both appropriate and destroy property as they wish. The Israelis have prevented the Palestinains from opening either a port or an airport in Gaza - all transport must go through frequently closed Israeli-manned land checkpoints. WHo would invest in such a place?

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Which occupied territory are you referring to? The fence has been built. Isreali on one side and the Arabs on the other.

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No. Israelis free to cross the fence as often as they want, to cross through all checkpoints unimpeded, to live on whichever side they chose, to steal Palestinian land, to use roads on the Palestinian side of the fence that Palestinians are barred from using or even crossing, cutting off areas from each other. Palestinians on one side, stuck there. Hence why it is aptly called the apartheid wall.