Perry Willis
1 min readJan 19, 2024

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Thanks for your comment. I appreciate the opportunity to further explain what my argument.

There are two distinct issues involved. Sovereignty over territory and ownership of land. Right now the settler movement in the West Bank is stealing land that is owned by individual Palestinians. They are doing this in an attempt to establish Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, the two biblical territories that make up the West Bank. My argument is this...

Israel should get the sovereignty while the Palestinians should retain ownership of their real estate properties.

Israel should have sovereignty because they will be better protectors of human rights than the Palestinians would be, and because giving Israel sovereignty would remove the settler movement's reason for stealing land and houses.

So my proposal attempts to preserve Palestinians ownership of their land while also providing a better legal framework within which to live and prosper.

Your use of the word apartheid is manipulative. Apartheid was a specific set of South African policies that have little overlap with the situation in the West Bank. Languages matters. There can be no honest dialog without using words in an honest way.

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Perry Willis
Perry Willis

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Perry Willis is the past National Director of the Libertarian Party and the cofounder of Downsize DC and the Zero Aggression Project.

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