MontyB
All-Blacks Supporter
No offense but you are playing with semantics and I have no doubt I am using a little poetic license but the reality is you have missed my point in this which is that I don't care about percentages as much as trends and in this case I think the trend in that image indicates the reality on the ground.
I know the information you both post is slanted/biased toward your cause I can live with that because it is my job as a reader to take the information that interests me and investigate further.
So rather than beating around the bush how about answering some questions:
1) Has Palestinian ownership/habitation of land in Israel/West Bank etc. grown since 1947 or decreased.
2) Same question but this time use the year 2000.
3) If the Palestinian land control has decreased has that happened voluntarily or was it through nefarious means such as being driven off through force, suddenly finding your water supply diverted or even just the threat of violence?
because here is your problem I can look at what both you and Spike tell me and determine not who is 100% correct but who is closest to accurate based on my own search for answers.
As for the rest well my point to Benaakatz is that it is not enough to say that the majority do not approve of the actions of an extreme section of his own country while doing absolutely nothing to stop them, it wasnt an acceptable agrument when the Nazi's tried it in 1945 and it isn't now.
All to prevailent is the majority that disaprove of criminal actions but are more than happy to bask in the proceeds from it.
I know the information you both post is slanted/biased toward your cause I can live with that because it is my job as a reader to take the information that interests me and investigate further.
So rather than beating around the bush how about answering some questions:
1) Has Palestinian ownership/habitation of land in Israel/West Bank etc. grown since 1947 or decreased.
2) Same question but this time use the year 2000.
3) If the Palestinian land control has decreased has that happened voluntarily or was it through nefarious means such as being driven off through force, suddenly finding your water supply diverted or even just the threat of violence?
because here is your problem I can look at what both you and Spike tell me and determine not who is 100% correct but who is closest to accurate based on my own search for answers.
As for the rest well my point to Benaakatz is that it is not enough to say that the majority do not approve of the actions of an extreme section of his own country while doing absolutely nothing to stop them, it wasnt an acceptable agrument when the Nazi's tried it in 1945 and it isn't now.
All to prevailent is the majority that disaprove of criminal actions but are more than happy to bask in the proceeds from it.