Quote El Barbudo="El Barbudo"At best you are being disingenuous and / or clouding the issue.
Scattered liberally across the West bank are Israeli settlements, whether they are occupied by Jews is not the point, the point is that they are Israeli settlements/invaders.'"
What you are doing here clouding the issue, though i accept that is because previous people have been disingenuous as the converstation moved on. The post was in response to a specific post which showed Jewish settlements and equated them with Israel.
Quote El BarbudoWhy do I say these settlements are Israeli?... Because they are occupied by Israelis from Israel, living in houses built with Israeli government money, protected by the Israeli Army, in many cases have a ginormous wall around them built by the Israeli state ... and the occupants are not subject to the same "border" checks (by the Israeli Army) that Palestinians are subjected to when they wish to visit Jerusalem (why are they not subject to the same checks? ... because they have Israeli ID).'"
But we werent talking about the settlements in the west bank, specifically this
Quote El Barbudo="cod'ead"
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Which as you can see moves from Jewish to Israeli as if they were the same thing. Thats the point I was making, this map is useless because it treats two different things as if they were the same. As you are doing here (though as i say, that is only obvious if you trace the conversation back) it was a response to specific claims
Quote El Barbudo="Mugwump"
It's an inherently **illegal** thing if you believe in democracy realised within the United Nations. And no-one is preventing Jews (or anyone else for that matter) from living outside the 1967 boundaries - just living under Jewish rule.
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Quote El BarbudoMost of the UN voted for them not to be there, the dissenting vetoes were from the US, a couple of islands wanting to ingratiate themselves with the US ... and the other was, er, Israel.'"
Its a fair old assumption to argue there was no other reason any other nation voted the way they did. It isnt an argument backed by evidence but assisted by bias to think everyone else voted on conscience whilst they voted politically.
Quote El BarbudoThey are Israelis invading Palestine.'"
No they are Israelis invading what was Egypt.