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Supporters of Palestinians
- Nazi (defeated)
- Pan-Arabists (defeated)
- Soviet Union (defeated)
- Iran
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Israel can’t defeat Iran alone
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Why it hasn’t been solved
- Local
- Geopolitical
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Can’t find a Palestinian solution that had a Jewish state
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P. ‘Justice’ is the undoing of the injustice; which is the destruction of Israel
Core Issue of the Conflict
“His Majesty’s Government have thus been faced with an irreconcilable conflict of principles … For the Jews the essential point of principle is the creation of a sovereign Jewish State. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine”
Quote by British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin in February 1947 in a speech to the British Parliament explaining why Britain can no longer carry out the mandate with which it was entrusted by the League of Nations and thus sending it back to the United Nation.
Note the date - February 1947: there is no Israel, no refugees, no occupation, no settlements, no blockade - none of the ‘understandable causes’ for Palestinian violence that even the UN Secretary General has fallen for.
And yet, already in February 1947 it is crystal clear why the conflict is already “irreconcilable”: as a matter of top priority, “the essential point of principle”, the Jews want a state whereas as a matter of top priority the Arabs of the land (later known as Palestinians) seek “to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine”.
That’s the conflict. The Jews want a state in even a part of the land. The Palestinians want the Jews not to have a state in any part of the land. That’s “Free Palestine”. That’s “From the River to the Sea”. It’s an idea that guarantees that generation after generation trained murderers will rise under different names: Fatah, DFLP, Hamas, Jihad, to “Liberate Palestine”.
If we are ever to have peace, this idea must change. Palestinians must develop a constructive vision of living next to a Jewish state rather than the century long destructive vision of living instead of it. Nothing less will do.
—Einat Wilf
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Economic conditions NEVER created peace
- Human development index of Gaza on eve of Oct 7th was better than half the other Arab countries
- West Bank before Second Intifada enjoyed high level of economic prosperity
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Empowering those who you can work with and disempowering those you can’t
- Day P. end the war on Jewish sovereignty, a vision of living next to Jewish state instead of instead of it are guaranteed to meet a state of Israel that will work with them and not a minute before.
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Majority in Arab world think Jews are foreigners, invaders; a small minority is starting to think of them as Abrahamic
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War doesn’t immediately translate into radicalism
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You can defeat terrible ideas with war
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P. have walked away in 2000/2008 from the best offers and P. never had internal arguments or protests against them walking away
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Restoration is getting the core of the problem and for the P. people its for putting the Jews back in their place
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Arab and Muslim conquers in the previous 1400 years, they only knew one type of Jew
- Meek, disposed and stateless
- Lower status
- Not equals
- Jews could not ride horses, only donkeys
- Jews couldn’t bear arms
- Civilizational shock of the Arab world that are defending themselves and telling Arabs and Muslims they are equal
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International Community is driving the P. to fight
- Why would you negotiate with who is genociding and putting you into a concentration camp?
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You make peace with defeated enemies, exhausted enemies
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Egypt ‘peace’ with war isn’t really a peace
- Only the defense pact holds
- No cultural relations
- Barely economic relations
- No tourist relations
- Basically a cold war
- The state continuously spreads venom about Israel