Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I oppose ANY subjugation. And what you said about intifada I is utterly bogus. The point of that intifada was to get out from under the Occupation...it's not as if they just wanted to get rid of Fatah. And intifada I did not vindicate the previous Israeli refusal to recognize the PLO as the negotiating voice of the Palestinian people, because there wasn't an alternative leadership.
If there had been, that leadership would have still emerged after Oslo, because nothing that happened under Oslo prevented such a leadership from emerging. And it goes without saying that any alternative leadership would have asked for the same terms Arafat asked for-none would have settled for anything SHORT of independence...and none proposed settling for less, or for less territory. If they had, the world would have heard of it.