[Preechr]

Nice sourcing, but am I suddenly supposed to accept the words of Yassir Arafat as credible... from you?

I mean, seriously... No offense, BUT!

Am I now supposed to accept Arafat as a man of his word?

Come on.

Arafat was a salesman, and he was most interested in selling what was easiest to sell. The Palestinians living in Israel had always pretty well off, as you indicated before. Who built those settlements? Who ran the stores? I compared the Israeli Palestinians to the American Mexicans, and I stand by that. I addressed that comparison to the other readers because I thought you had an understanding of the reality of Israel. The West Bankers and the Gazans had become the functional backbone of the Israeli state, but they did so by essentially becoming Israelis. They spoke Hebrew for Christsakes! They built the settlements!! Come on!!!

The Israeli Palestinians were not what Arafat was holding up to the world as the representation of the evil that was the Zionist Entity. He stood for the right of RETURN, not the right of shrugging off the coil of oppressive occupation.

Are you really going to sit here and try to tell me that the occupied territories were the hotbeds of MidEast violence prior to 1987?

Here's your clarified question, and I will pose it in two parts: Is there any difference at all between the demands of the Palestinians that live in the occupied territories and anybody else that opposes Zionism? The second part is this: Whether yes or no, why do you think so?