# Ask the "crazy" settler **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-crazy-settler/553889 "2010-09-15T21:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 69
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-crazy-settler/553889/69 "2010-09-16T16:13:57Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > > [@Alessan](#): > > > > Personally, I don’t think anyone would give a shit about what I thought if that happened. > > It’s a rhetorical question. I’m asking if you would hold the same line cosnsistently, or if you only want to use it when it’s convenient to you. Do Arabs have a right of conquest too, or only Jews? Alessan doesn’t want to annex the West Bank, so you’re probably arguing with the wrong person. And of course, the problem with annexing the West Bank is that you’d either have to expel all the Palestinians, or allow them to stay but without civil rights, or make them citizens. Expelling them is gonna be a bit tough and would lead to regional war. Making them non-citizens gives you the status quo, so what’s the point? And making them citizens means that Israel isn’t a majority Jewish country anymore. So either Israel has to abandon the West Bank, or abandon its majority Jewish identity, or abandon democracy. If I were an Israeli I know which option I’d choose. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-crazy-settler/553889)._