Mal: Your ideas about Israel and palestine are very short sighted.
You want what? Increased U.S. pressure on Israel to accommodate Palestinian demands? And the ultimate goal is what? A Palestinian state based on the unstable 1967 borders and ruled by Islamists like Hamas or kleptocratic secularists like Fatah? Or is it to dismantle Israel altogether in favor of a single nation, where an unrestricted “right of return” for Palestinians leads to a collapse of Jewish democracy? How would the current population of Israel and what is known as palestine fare under a victorious new, Islamic-dominated Palestinian state?
Mostly, the Left would prefer not to answer these questions, instead preferring guilt trips about supposed Israeli and American imperialist sins, and fantasies about a newly liberated and friendly “Palestine.”
It's the same short sighted concept regarding restoring all lands to the "Indians". How would that all turn out? In the words of Little Big Man, "I see your dump, but where's your village?"
