When will Israel back off & reduce its land and power in the middle East.?

Israel has more prosperity, less overcrowding and a greater land mass, than the West Bank. Indeed until it gives back some land back to the people their I see no change of actual warfare from both sides in the future. Is there other options on the table or am I wrong in this view.

i would in broad terms agree with some of what you are saying

israel is the more affluent 'player' if you like, it can afford to give both land and money in the long term ideal of producing a stable two state solution and i hope that it make real strides towards doing so.

But I do think that a lot of people see the situation as 'rich' israel being the abuser and exploiter of 'poor' palestinians - and i for one cannot really fault the actions of Israelis who have been the brunt of aggression against them for so long, so it really has two be a two way process where both groups are seen to compromise.

The palestinian people have been badly let down by the people who are supposed to represent them - Arafat, PLO, Fatah, Hamas and probably a load of other splinter groups all broadly dedicated to aggression towards Israel. Once these groups start to soften their stance then there will be a chance of peace - like Fatah and the West Bank, Just like the Jordanians and Egyptians have some form of lasting negotiated peace with Israel.

Simply asking Israel to make concessions without appropriate reciprocation is unreasonable, because as we have seen with Gaza which was handed back to the palestinian authorities, gaza has now become governed by a bunch of extremists who will happily kill both Jew and Arab if they get in the way of their ideology

Israel is a tiny part of the middle east. And prosperity there isn't coming from the land, it's coming from the people. Israelis are willing to work towards bettering their future.. Palestinians want to genocide their neighbors. The difference in attitudes is the major factor in the difference in the quality of life.

israel back off? unlikely

http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/aug/01bidwai.htm

"Last week (July 22), Israeli leaders, including former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, celebrated the 60th anniversary of one of Zionism's worst terrorist attacks, on the King David Hotel, the headquarters of the British representative in the region."

these are the sorts of people who control israel. israel will never back off while its politically expedient for the US to prop up their tin-pot terrorist state

because of the terrorist attacks israel has veered to the right, meaning that a more right wing government is going to take control of israel, i doubt it

last time netanahu right wing was prime minister the same thing happened

And here I am, wondering when Israel is going to be increasing its land and power in the Middle East?

Since the Arabs control far more land, why don't you ask them when they will give some up?

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