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If we stopped gently holding down Israels's rage at every shell that gets sent their way, I can certainly see Israel's own hard-lined leaders trying to slap dow

If we stopped gently holding down Israels's rage at every shell that gets sent their way, I can certainly see Israel's own hard-lined leaders trying to slap down Palestinians and their outside support once and for all. Such a lopsided military offense would certainly draw support against Israel from other parts of the Arab world, and the rest is a snowball on a steep hill. But this is conjecture to be sure.

dogma1138 11y ago
That's not a conjecture that's not even fantasy, that's a complete ignorance of the political situation. Israel isn't being lead by hard-liners (when comparing them to US hard liners / right wing), the "Likud" is called a right wing party, mostly because back when it was established the Israeli left still had a hammer and a sickle in their logo. Israel has no reason to bomb the Palestinians out of existence and while I doesn't want to give up territory for many reasons with security being a prime one, it also doesn't show intent no has a reason to go out for an all out war. Offensive operations are not viewed well by the Israeli public, not to mention that even if they did went all out on the Palestinians no one in the Arab world would really care. The Palestinian issue isn't and wasn't anything more than a front in the wider conflict between the Arab states and Israel, that conflict is long gone and faded. If the Arabs cared about Palestinians they would not block the UN from treating them as refugees, they would not force them to live in camps for 70 years passing their situation to their children and instead of denying them every right they could easily have resettled them by now.