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Hugh Mercer's avatar

I appreciate the thought that went into this. However, the problem is the racist authoritarian apartheid government of Israel. If democracy and human rights are truly a real thing, we should be holding them accountable with overwhelming support from all "liberal democracies ". Buying another state to effectively ethnicity cleanse gaza is just sanitizing the dirty work of a horribly fascist state, essentially giving it and all of its "allies " a blank check for future "solutions". How about the citizens of Gaza decide.. after all democracy right?

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Peter Robinson's avatar

I added the word "supermajority" to this sentence in my draft:

There would need to be a threshold (supermajority) for final approval on both the Hala'ib and the Palestinian sides.

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Peter Robinson's avatar

A supermajority of all of the Palestinians would have to approve. That's in the proposal. Would you oppose what most of the Palestinians wanted to do?

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Hugh Mercer's avatar

*most

Someone always gets screwed

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