Forging property titles and moving in. At least the Israelis have taught the Palestinian Muslims a few tricks of the trade.

Now if the local Aboriginal elder came looking for my block of land on the same basis as the 1948 scenario, the best I could suggest might be, how about we share it?

Unfortunately, I have no weapons to defend my turf and if my Indigenous friends came with a few men and spears (aka the post WWII western powers), then I might be in the same mess.

Sharing rather than owning is the only way to deal with this.

#Mickey K

The Christian Arabs are leaving places like Bethlehem and Bet Sahur for religious reasons. They have seen the writing on the wall. You can't blame them for choosing to end their minority existence in former majority Christian towns where policies by the Palestinian Authority have allowed the Christian majority to be overtaken by a Moslem majority.

Your use of pejorative terms like "the illegal theft of occupied land" does nothing to resolve the conflict - only exacerbate it.

As I have long pointed out Jews have the legal right to live in the West Bank pursuant to article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the United Nations Charter.

The West Bank is no man's land where sovereignty has remained undetermined between Arabs and Jews for the last 63 years and still remains to be resolved - hopefully by negotiations rather than another war.

Jewish settlement in the West Bank has been the policy of Israeli Governments of all political persuasion during the last 35 years - not only "the religious right" - as you claim. Had the Arabs been prepared to negotiate prior to 1993 the resolution of sovereignty would have been far more easier to achieve than it is now.

Driving out the West Bank Jews is indeed part of a concerted Arab strategy to reverse the results of both the 1948 and 1967 wars.

The continuing failure of the Arab League to recognize Israel as the Jewish National Home is compelling evidence of that intention

#Reality Check

You state:

"Sharing rather than owning is the only way to deal with this."

Would be interested to read your thoughts on this idea. How do you propose it would work?