Sharansky on settlements

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Has anyone read about Sharansky's views on the Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank? I know he was the minister in charge of settlements but I could not any quote for why he thought they were alright.

Settlement are one the two things that Israel has done that seem clearly immoral. (The other is the fact that Arab Israeli towns do not receive the same amount of money for schools and development.) I am not saying these are horrible wrongs but they are immoral. I also think they are harmful to both the Israelis and Palestinians and have very little, if any, upside.

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I don't know if he was Minister in charge of settlements or not. His party platform supported intigration of immigrants, but I'm sure that meant ways other than just building settlements.
 
He was "Minister of Housing and Construction" from 2001-2003. I have heard this described (by anti-Sharansky) as the ministry of settlements and other less flattering descriptions.

He supports increased housing on the West Bank
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Glad you liked it, Supercharts. I don't see any reason why discussion has to end just because a books month is up. If you have any observations or questions, you still have an audience that's also read the book.
 
Whoa! Immoral? I would be very interested in learning about a moral code based on something other than religion.

Evey time I have seen one, it has been a practical code... a set of standards designed for the "greater good" of the largest possible number of people. Which falls apart because the definition of good is also based on some underlying assumptions that come from a moral/religious structure. Things like fairness, etc. When do the needs of the many outweight the needs of the few, or of the one? When do the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many? Depends on your value system.
 
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Whoa! Immoral? I would be very interested in learning about a moral code based on something other than religion.
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Go read up on, for example, Kant, Mill, Bentham, and Rawls. The concept of a secular system of morality has been around for quite a while.
 
Ayn Rand would second that motion. But she seems a bit dated, allbeit a brainiac.
 
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