Reply #25: I'm more than happy to be the skunk at your diatribe [View All]

Being an "ARMCHAIR GENERAL" is akin to "monday morning quarterbacking"...everyone is an expert.

Israel having suffered relentless attacks since even before Intafada I
has been faced with rather poor options. The Wall is the best TEMPORARY solution under these attacks. Your definition of
"annexation of land" strains credulaity. Perhaps you may want
to turn your ire to Jordan for not estalishing a palestinian state.
In fact ,perhaps you want to actually pin that phrase of "ethnic
cleansing" on jordan.

Bringing up the inflammory phrase "Ethnic Cleansing" is disingenuous at best....and an outright lie at worst, I'm sorry to say.
Israel will never return to the 67 borders given the events of 67 and
intafada 1 and 2. Your definition of the hot-button phrase
"ethnic cleansing" of those misplaced persons fails to even raise
to that level and even more miserably fails when the fact is approx
20%+ of the israeli population is of palestinian descent. I am fairly certain that if Israel wanted to engage in your "ETHNIC CLEANSING"
Israel it would have started a long time ago.

Perhaps some light rather than "smoke and mirrors" might be useful.

http://www.munfw.org/archive/50th/4th1.htm

"Ethnic Cleansing: The elimination of an unwanted group from a society, as by genocide or forced migration."

Where is the elimation of the palestinians from Israeli society by
forced migration?? In fact THERE IS NONE....

also:

"Ethnic cleansing has been defined as "the elimination of an unwanted group from society, as by genocide or forced migration." This definition is inherently broader than that of genocide alone, and thereby encompasses mass killings and forced removals in far greater number and scope. The U.S. State Department, in a recent report on Kosovo, concluded that ethnic cleansing "generally entails the systematic and forced removal of members of an ethnic group from their communities to change the ethnic composition of a region."

Whatever population may be affected by the wall is NOT to change the
"ethnic composition of a region"....therefore your description of the
of "ethnic cleansing" is simply untrue.

I'm indeed saddened you chose to link Israels wall to Slobos
ethnic cleansing and genocide. In fact, the facts speak just
the opposite.