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do it. The alternative is to just let Netanyahu keep on in Lebanon, Syria and in the Occupied Territories while the world wrings it's hands and issues words. Netanyahu and the radical far right have already set in motion complaining about Jordan not policing their border. The radical right has long had gaining the East Bank of the Jordan River as one of their goals.

It becomes ridiculous for countries and people around the world to complain and bluster about Israeli conduct if they aren't willing to do anything about it beyond strong words. At least have the guts to kick out their ambassador. Maybe even **gasp** take trade sanctions etc. But even before all of this recent activity it has long been very clear that the world at large has been, for many decades, more about lip service regarding the plight of the Palestinians than any real, and I emphasize real, concrete actions to make the Israeli government stop the illegal squatter activity in the West Bank, stop the Israeli government collecting taxes from the West Bank Palestinians and then withholding the transfer of those funds to the PA thereby preventing the PA from using the funds for needed programs and services, stop the IDF from commandeering more and more Palestinian lands in the West Bank under the guise of "needed for military/security operations", make the Israeli government/IDF provide effective prevention/apprehension of Israeli squatter violence against Palestinians, stop the Israeli government/IDF from arbitrarily destroying Palestinian crops, stop the Israeli government/IDF from restricting access by Palestinian farmers to tend their crops, stop the Israeli government/IDF from restricting building permits and infrastructure improvements while facilitating them for the illegal squatters, stop the Israeli government/IDF from attacking schools and permanently stunting the educational advancement of children, stop the Israeli government/IDF from actively targeting for destruction the camps, people and repositories with the most historical ties and records to the land ownership of Palestinians that was taken away under Partition and was guaranteed, by the powers at the UN, would be compensated etc., stop the Israeli government/IDF from it's practice of "indefinite administrative detention without charge" of young Palestinians including children, stop the Israeli government/IDF from gross abuse of Palestinians it detains, stop the Israeli government/IDF from keeping Palestinians in need of medical care detained at checkpoints and border crossings for hours and days, stop the Israeli government/IDF from bulldozing Palestinian crops and homes. There are more things that could be added to this list.

These are things that have gone on for many decades while the world spoke words. These are things done consistently by the Israeli government/IDF in territories they do not have legal right to and they have done these things to a population they have no legal right for committing these acts. They have done so under the protection and with full support from the US and other nations. I have said it before and I will again that the promises made to the Palestinians upon the Partition plan being approved at the UN were never anything more than lies, told knowingly, by the powers at the UN. There was never going to be compensation or right of return. Acquiescing and supporting the extermination and forced displacement of the Palestinians is and has been the unspoken "solution" to the Palestinian issue and we see it now by countries and people too gutless to take even the simplest of diplomatic actions, let alone military, while they wring their worthless hands and run their worthless mouths. The same who speak of morals, freedom, integrity and concern and demand it for themselves and threaten the world for their own protection while watching the slaughter of other's children and can only find empty words and hollow threats that are the province and use of moral cowards.