There was nothing for Israel or the country's citizens to negotiate about. The one-state solution which the Arabs that we call the Palestinians have reverted to after the failure of Oslo, is not a solution.
Also, the Green Line was never a border. At Arab insistence in 1949.
The reality:
The 1949 Armistice Lines (Green Line) were explicitly not borders as The Arab states insisted on this specifically to preserve their claim to all of Palestine.
The agreements stated these were temporary ceasefire lines, not recognized boundaries.
Jordan illegally occupied the West Bank (1948-1967), Egypt occupied Gaza during that period as well and no one called for a Palestinian state then.
Those lines haven't existed since June 1967 - nearly six decades ago.
The rhetorical trick: Calling them "borders" and "1967 borders" at that, makes it sound like Israel is violating established, recognized international boundaries. It implies there was a legitimate Palestinian state with defined borders that Israel invaded and still occupies.
But there never was such a state. The lines were explicitly temporary, explicitly not borders, explicitly subject to negotiation in a final peace settlement.
The deeper irony: The Arab states insisted these weren't borders because they rejected Israel's legitimacy entirely and wanted the option to finish the job later. Now that same rejection of legitimacy is repackaged as "return to 1967 borders" - using lines that only existed because of Arab rejectionism, as if they represented some sacred status quo.
It's like starting a fight, losing, refusing to sign a peace treaty, then 58 years later demanding the other side return to where things stood when you refused to make peace.
The fact-checking failure here is massive and consequential. So many people genuinely don't know these weren't borders.
