Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Is Israel an Occupying Power? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context | Unpacked" video.

  1. Yea, if we recognize 1000 year old claims to land, then everyone in the world will have to move. This is not the strongest Israeli argument, and it is the worst excuse for the settlements in the West bank/Judea. The area was a territory of the Ottomans, originally taken by force, and it included modern day Jordan. The correct answer is that a lot of territory got redistributed in the middle east, that there was never a state of Palestine, the Palestinians aren't demanding Jordan "back", and more than half of the Israelis were evicted themselves by force from the middle east. The traditional answer in the past, and that carried out in Jordan, was mass evictions and executions of the native peoples. Obviously the better solution is to come to an agreement. I believe this will happen when the Palestinians lose all other supporting countries that encourage violence over coming to an arrangement. I think Hamas also believes this, which is why they launched an attack on the eve of an accord with Saudi Arabia. That leaves Iran, which has many enemies, but none more powerful than its own people, who will prevail in the end.
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