Filed with Sources, Books & Media (MOC) · Related: 60.1 Israel-Palestine · Key Arguments (MOC)
- 2000 Camp David, Clinton's Parameters and Taba Talks
- Arafat walks away and there’s no push back from his people. Nothing. P. people were only angry for negotiating.
- Second Intifada
- Brutal weeks after P. could have had everything
- Moment people asked, “What do the Palestinians want?”
- They clearly don’t want a state, settlements, capital in East Jerusalem
- To the credit of the Palestinians, they always told people what they wanted.
- Free from the river to the sea. (Free from jews)
- At the critical moment, when they could of had their state, they showed they really wanted it all.
- The solution is not simple.
- Two state is simple.
- But if the conflict is no matter what, P. people want Jews to disappear from the Middle East.
- P. state DOES NOT equal peace
- P. prioritize the Jews not having a state over them having a state.
- P. need to transform as a people before there’s peace
- Myth of the Right of Return
- P. deeply held beliefs that Jewish people are: stateless, powerless, inferior.
- P. violence was successful in getting the British to cave to their demands of suppressing Jewish immigration
- As a result Israel didn’t emerge in the 1930s
- You could of only had ethnic cleansing of Jews from Europe, you had a genocide.
- Arab violence is responsible for 100,000s of Jews were killed by Nazis
- Theodor Herzl saw the need for a Jewish state before WWII
- UNRWA has been hijacked by Palestinians
- P. identity was formed as a negative: The destruction of Israel
- Hamas represents the P. vision of elimination of Israel
- Gives P. the respect at taking them at their word
- Makes a comparison between Japan and what P. and Islamist about society transformation.
- Gulf countries are transforming
- Reformation of Islam
- They saw ISIS, Arab Spring, 9/11 etc.. and realized they needed an alternate story for the young people
- Abraham Accords as collateral benefit
- Gulf countries are transforming
- The goal is the Arab and Islamic embrace of Jewish sovereignty in their midst.
- Arab Zionism
- People want Israeli’s to accept as a bare minimum the P. right to self-determination in the land. Why is it such a massive ask for the P. to equally recognize the Jewish self-determination in the land?
- Israeli government is not rising to the occasion
- “corrupt mediocrities” great phrase
- “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”― G. Michael Hopf