What do you believe the Palestinians should be required to give up for peace? I keep seeing people demand Israel give into the demands of the Palestinians in order to have peace. Like elections war have consequences and Israel won they get to set the rules.
I thought that "winner sets the rules" mentality went away after the results of Versailles. If a deal is to be viable, it'll have to take both sides into account.
But as for what needs to be settled for a peace in the region:
- Israel needs to give up some settlements so that a Palestinian state can be viable (and this state will be less than the 1967 borders, as that's the starting point for negotiations)
- Refugees need to somehow be compensated for not being able to return
- Palestinians need to build up a police/security force and stop attacks on Israel
- The status of Jerusalem needs to be settled. Remember how it was supposed to be an independent, UN-run area in the 1948 partitioning plan. Both sides need to realise that they can not have it on their own if they want peace.
Do you have any more major points that need to be solved?
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Turkey threatens to expel 100,000 Armenians
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Why not let sleeping dogs lie?
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Erdogan is the Middle East's Chavez. *NM*
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Because Obama was looking for a way to get offended
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You call this a freeze?
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Not your sourness silly. Obama's
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How about permanently? 
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Major conditions
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Re: Major conditions
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Seriously, what conflict are you looking at?
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Re: Seriously, what conflict are you looking at?
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well I wasn't talking about how anyone treated but who was making the decisions
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Man, your analysis is weird
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It is pretty crude
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The guy who has managed to face down one military coup from a sector that doesn't want it admitted?
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