Brian Ross wrote Yesterday at 10:52am:

Continue reading your source, lying, yawning moron:


Despite the Israel–PLO Letters of Mutual Recognition (1993), in which PLO leader Yasser Arafat renounced violence against Israel, the PLO engaged in militant activities during the Second Intifada (2000–2005). On 29 October 2018, the PLO Central Council suspended the Palestinian recognition of Israel.[17][18]

Frank wrote Yesterday at 12:16pm:


You're right but was that a political decision rather than a religious one?  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

Bwhine will say the real problem is all these people have Islamophobia.

Brian Ross wrote Yesterday at 7:58pm:


There is no difference between political and religious in Islam. Islam is a political, legal and religious ideology, there is no separation. Ask all your Islamic friends you work, serve and study with. Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

thegreatdivide wrote Today at 10:39am:


Hamas beat Fatah in an election in Gaza.
So who speaks for Palestinians?


As for Jerusalem and the rest - the Palestinians didn't take their statehood opportunity when it first came up in 1948, when Israel did take its chance. Since then the Arabs started half as dozen wars and violent attacks on Israel to so the facts on the ground have changed considerably. There is no going back to everything the Palestinans may have wanted in 1948 or 56 or 67 or 73 or the 1990s etc.
You can't always have what you want, as the poet crooner. Or all of it.

The UN cannot implement anything. It can only resolve, endorse or censure- talk.

Only actual member states can implement - ie act beyond talking. The Jews implemented their side of 181 by declaring Israel and then defending it and then making an actual, functioning country.

The Palestinians could do the same. But the work of creating a functioning country is a lot more hard work than stealing international aid and spending it on Jihad against an actual, functioning state.

Frank wrote Today at 11:08am:


You uneducable, blind RW ideologue, I already explained why the UN was crippled at its inception, and failed its first test i ie,  the creation of 2 new states via a majority vote by the UN.   

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And requiring UNSC backing.....


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It was the job of the UN, not Israel, to "p ammend", ie implement UN res 181, as per one of the UN's earliest resolutions. The UN failed, resulting in ongoing war ever since.

And only the UN could have partitioned the Palestine Mandate legally, because there was no process before the UN whereby Jews could take Palestine Mandate territory without using force.

So the Jews took their UN-designated part of the Palestine Mandate by force anyway, because the UN was powerless to implement UN res 181 and stop the war.

Deplorable.