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Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Israel did negotiate settlement with the enemy countries in the war. But that's besides the point, the Palestinians won't stop terrorist actions against Israelis in until they get land inside the 1967 borders and get a right to return to Israel proper. Neither of those things will happen any time soon.
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Your "beside the point" is itself beside the point. In litigation (i.e., YMMV) we recognize the difference between what the other side will voluntarily pay, and what a jury is likely to award. We don't automatically deem "reasonable" the amount the opponent will pay, but we also don't think the unreasonableness of the other side's damage theory renders our own automatically correct. Everybody uses what the judge and jury will think is reasonable as the touchstone.
It doesn't particularly matter to this discussion what the Palestinians want. If Israel cared about that enough to change, it wouldn't need a wall at all. What matters to border-drawing is international recognition of the border's legitimacy. Whomever loses the battle for international recognition of its borders, loses the land. Force is only one component of the equation.
