They could easely get better rockets that fly further away.

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they could get them, not necessarily easily, but that doesn't mean anything. they'd be trying to get their hands on ever longer range missiles anyway, so displacing the population would always be a potential and perhaps even necessary stop-gap solution;

decimus, governments have a duty to protect their citizens. if there are rockets flying over the border of a nation then it is the task of that government to remove the threat; the fact that one would try to prevent this does not mean there couldn't be a multi-pronged strategy with both sticks and carrots, in the malayan emergency for example sequestering a population of roughly five hundred thousand people was only one cornerstone of the strategy

Just leave the palestinians alone. Give them back their land and throw the israelians out of palestinia which they have occupied for decades and this would be solved in a year or so and no need for expensive stuff to be built.

"The Palestinians want the whole of Israel "returned" to them."

Why the quotes?  Israel was original part of Palestine, admittedly not an overly populated part of Palestine, and they had been living there for thousands of years.  Regardless of the state of the Palestinian nation, i.e I don't think they were one, surely you can understand the people claiming ownership.  It's similar in many ways to the Natives of North America, they had no real cities to speak of and weren't a coherent nation but they still claimed ownership, once they learned people actually thought you could own land.

Israel to me doesn't make sense.  What was the conversation like to decide where to put them.

"Ok the Jews have just been horribly persecuted, let's do something nice and give them a country to call their own.  So where are we gonna put it."

"Well obviously none of us are going to give up any of our land."

"Obviously."

"I got it let's give them Ancient Israel."

"Sure we'll give the Jews land which includes a holy city surrounded by Muslims what could possibly go wrong."

Not saying I disagree with giving the Jews a homeland I just don't think the people who did it really thought it through.

Great idea except since Israelis have been settling in the West Bank, you may have to move the 2.5 million Palestinians who already live there someplace else which would be the beginning of yet another humanitarian disaster.

Don't know why Israel insists on shielding and supporting its religious fanatics who keep settling the West Bank on the basis of claiming it as the biblical homeland. Guess it doesn't help when Christian fundamentalists in the U.S keep stoking the fire, hoping that the continued occupation by Israel will fulfill arcane prophecy and bring about Armageddon. If they keep it up Armageddon may very well take place though why one would hope for such a thing...

Then again religious fanatics are the same whether it's Tibet, Yugoslavia, the Middle East or segments of the U.S.

So, when the Palestinians get their land back, who'll be next?  Is Tibet or, Kurdistian, or Hungary on the list?

1) Displacing that much DPS would pretty much negate 2/3 of the populated Palestine lands and 1/3 of the Israeli lands

2) Seeking out the guilty parties is impossible while Palestinians will hide the terrorists. Act this out in your own city. Goto the far side of your city, act as if you fired a rocket, and find a place 1 mile away in less than 15 minutes. Figure how many places are available for you to hide at.

3) Tavius you are a anti-religionist. You spout a good line but know NOTHING. If 1% of Christians think Israel owning the west bank will bring the Armageddon then I will be surprised to say the least. Satan has not been banished yet, and the thousand years of peace has not occurred. Learn a religion in full or be accused of being an idiot in full again before you go spouting off.

4) The issue wont be resolved until the Palestine's either quit on their own, or quit receiving support from the West. I mean political support, propaganda support, and the likes. Think on this, if those finely crafted rockets they fire had been made into machining materials, and the machines which made the rockets was used to make more machines, Palestine would be RICHER than Israel. But all you Euro and other anti-Israeli trash cant think about that.

oh boy......not this topic again.

the Jews in Israel will live w/Palestinians.

The Palestinians want to drive the Jews into the sea.

Its that simple.  One will compromise, the other wants total dominion.