Reply #4: because its not entirly true...

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thats why "we dont see it"

Why doesn't Israel recognize that the continued brutality of the occupation is creating the circumstances that are being used to justify it?

....I am saying that without hope of the end of the settlements in the West Bank, like it or not, approve of it or not, this is what will continue to happen.

and so far events show that the attacks will continue even when there are no settlements.

if the settlements were the SOLE reason, then the wars of 48 and 67 and 73 would never have happened. Without taking those events into account..the thesis involving the "no settlements = peace" is simply not realistic.

classic examples being n. israel and gaza. Anybody who claim that all israel has to do is to retreat to agreed upon boundries would have to explain why rockets and mortors and other attacks continue on those borders....because i sure dont understand.