First, they were never borders. They were ceasefire lines. Israel tried have them be recognized as borders from 1948 to 1967, but Palestinians and the Arab States rejected this. They then proceeded to start an eliminationist war in 1967 (really 1964, given the formation of the PLO and the emergence of the "War over Water" with Syria - and the Arab League adopted explicitly eliminationist positions that year). Second, the US offered to recognize the PLO in 1978 if it agreed to UN Resolution 242 (1967 Lines). The PLO said no. Third, I recognize Palestinians believe the 1967 lines are unjust. But Germans thought the Weimar lines were unjust. Italy spoke of post-WW1 borders as unjust. Imagine, if after rejecting prior "unjust" borders and starting wars, Italy and Germany said "okay we are willing to settle for what we thought was unjust before and we believe we are TOTALLY reasonable asking for this." It would have been absurd. And yet ... many Palestinians think that's a tremendous concession. The repeated habit in pro-Palestinian advocacy is to reject a compromise, end up worse off, and then say "okay we would like to revisit that prior thing we rejected after we walked away from the table and kept fighting." This is ridiculous. https://bird.makeup/@khaliljeries/1787951196210102753
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