Detroit Jews ask: Are settlement boycotts the same as BDS?

[FBaggins]

42. Was that supposed to be responsive?

I point out that it isn't an authentic movement, but rather a slippery-slope tactic of the BDS movement... and your rebuttal is a link from a rabidly BDS organization? Were you trying to be entertaining or does it just come naturally?

I point out that many of those products are produced by Palestinian employees who benefit from the income. Your response doesn't even try to touch on this fact.

Lastly, I pointed out that most peace proposals assume land swaps that would put the vast majority of the population of the settlements into Israel proper. Did you think that you refuted this simple fact by claiming that the position wasn't unanimous? If so, you failed miserably.

and Netanyahu hasn't offered any swaps.

Untrue.

However, Palestinians have consistently stressed that any land swap must be equal in size and quality. The London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi translated an Israeli report saying that the major disagreement between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators is the size and quality of the swap. According to this report, the gap between the two sides is huge. Israel wishes to annex nearly 10% of the West Bank, while Palestinians are open to a much smaller 3%. The Israeli report, originally published on the Hebrew-language website Walla News, says that the percentage is derived from the calls by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to include the Hebron and Beit El settlements. In January, AFP picked up an interview from Israeli radio in which Netanyahu said Israel would like to annex 13% of the West Bank. All these figures exclude Jerusalem.

According to UN resolutions and international law, they've got to go.

Also untrue. There's an argument to be made that they violate a number of international standards. At the same time, an easy argument can be made that the Palestinians have committed scores of war crimes and other violations of international standards themselves. You don't get to point at one side's violations and claim that it means that they give up everything.

That's why they're called peace negotiations.