Reply #7: that's why Israel is pursuing the same ethnic cleansing...

[mike_c]

...that permitted white european immigrants to establish a nation in North America. The only real "solution" to the problem of a preexisting population is to drive them out, segregate them, and kill them. The Palestinian refugees have something that terrifies Israel-- a moral claim that cannot be denied except with extreme and obvious injustice. The only solution is a multigenerational solution-- wipe them out, take their land, or negate their claims otherwise, all while still maintaining the grinding apartheid and oppression, and eventually the problem will go away. Eventually the world will remember the Palestinians as an unfortunate people who were simply unable to resist the march of change that was "inevitable" in their region at best, and at worst as a blighted group who brought their own destruction upon themselves. Those that are left will either be dispersed or confined to easily controlled enclaves utterly dependent upon Israeli support. That's what Israel is counting on.