Rice Acknowledges a Reality

[Radar]

How is it a mistake to build houses on your own land? They won the land in a war that others started without provocation. By all rights, they could have taken ALL of the land, but they chose to be generous and only take a small part of it. And now you want to criticize them for building homes on their own honestly acquired land?

[tw]

Originally Posted by Radar

How is it a mistake to build houses on your own land? They won the land in a war that others started without provocation.

Using that reasoning, then Israelis should have never and would have never made peace with Egypt.

Principles that made possible an Israeli / Egyptian peace settlement should apply to the West Bank. The greatest impediment to that solution are extremist zionists who have sworn to never let happen again what happened in the Sinai to create peace.

Once both sided conceded to the wants and needs of the other side, then peace came closest to occuring: Taba in 2002. What Rice has just conceded is what made Taba possible and what was a greatest impediment to a Taba peace settlement.

Taba almost happened without American participation. In 2002, negotiators on both side recognized that the American government was no longer an honest broker. Amazing are how far both sides conceded in the interest of peace. And then Ariel Sharon came into power.