Israel-Palestine Conflict

[MalaspinaGold]

Stop.

[MalaspinaGold]

A) These discussions don't work, for several very obvious reasons.
B) For actual discussion of Israeli politics, there is the Israel General Discussion thread, which hasn't been posted in for a while because of the election, when discussion was transferred to the Israeli Election Thread. If we HAVE to talk about Israeli politics, do it there; that's where the least rabble-rousing happens anyway.
C) see A

[MalaspinaGold]

Well, a few things:
This board is generally populated by two types of threads:
Long-running threads dedicated to various countries/regions, that are continually updated with actual developments. Examples include UK General Discussion II,  The Great Nordic Thread, and France General Discussion II: Living Under Marxism.

Short-lived "wildcat threads" dedicated to a single news article/topic/obsession. Examples include the German Wings one, the one about the weird mayor from Romania, and the one about Qatar being terrible.

A thread asking people their opinion really belongs in Individual Politics. Unfortunately, there's all sorts of creepy crawlies there that, once they bite, can easily send a thread on this topic into the depths of unreadability. See: "Israeli General Election 1949".

The best option is probably to hijack the US-Israeli Relations after the Elections thread. That one didn't turn out completely terribly.

[MalaspinaGold]

I just came across an article that predicts a very grim -- and convincing -- future for the conflict.  I encourage anyone who is interested to read it in its entirety:

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/8390387/israel-dark-future

A silly article that simply brings a bunch of far leftists, to say how horrible things are and will be. Israel acts far more democratically now than during the pre-67 Mapai days.

That's not saying much...

[MalaspinaGold]

Also, I think it's unlikely Israel will annex the West Bank without extending citizenship to people living there. Obviously some people want it to happen but it's just not politically realistic (from the global point of view) in the modern age.

Israel already has de facto annexed the West Bank, tho I agree they won't annex de jure so they can continue to pay lip service to the two state solution that won't happen in my lifetime.

This isn't what anyone would consider real annexation, for reasons ag laid out.