Reply #5: It's the Occupation, stupid!

[IndianaGreen]

Or did you expect the Palestinians to dance in the streets and welcome the IDF as liberators, as many Americans believed the Iraqis would do when we invaded and occupied their country?

No one likes to be occupied by a foreign power!

As Avraham Burg said in his Guardian commentary:

Do you want the greater land of Israel? No problem. Abandon democracy. Let's institute an efficient system of racial separation here, with prison camps and detention villages.

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The prime minister should present the choices forthrightly: Jewish racism or democracy. Settlements, or hope for both peoples. False visions of barbed wire and suicide bombers, or a recognised international border between two states and a shared capital in Jerusalem.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1042071,00.html