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In reply to the discussion: Spare me your shock [View all]

Little Tich

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12. I still don't remember any such offers.
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 11:10 PM
Jul 2016

From what I remember, the offers you mentioned were meant to retain most of the settlements - hence, they were meaningless. When the illegal settlements are the cause of a non-viable state, trying to make them retroactively legal doesn't change anything. They're still there, and still make a Palestinian state non-viable...

However, these offers are a historical footnote, just like the Arab Peace Initiative and the French attempt will be. The reality is the continued construction of illegal settlements until the bi-national state is a fact on the ground that can't be ignored.

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