Reply #16: So now Arafat is threatening to invade Israel [View All]

[ex_jew]

and the separation wall is the main thing stopping him ? I must be missing something.

The Palestinians are the ones who gave up land for peace, but it didn't work. They're now confined to a small fraction of the original homeland and even that area can hardly be said to belong to them.

How is that Israel existed very nicely without control of the West Bank until 1967, when it suddenly became critical to the defense of a country which has jet fighters and nuclear weapons ? Is it just because Israel conquered this area and then looked around for a justification ? The West Bank is mostly a burden and only to a much lesser degree a strategic advantage. This "wall" we've been talking about is a recognition of that fact.