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In the 90s, There was a majority of Israelis willing to give the Palestinians a state and recognition for peace and recognition. This was met with packed buses
by mola 6y ago
In the 90s, There was a majority of Israelis willing to give the Palestinians a state and recognition for peace and recognition.
This was met with packed buses being blown away in major cities by palestinian extrimists during negotiations.
This allowed Israeli extremists to take the reigns, and after three decades of hegemony managed to convince most of the Israeli population that peace is a dangerous pipe dream and any sort of compromise will be met with violence. And to establish facts on the ground which would make a palestinian state practically impossible without rooting out masses of Israelis from their home by force.
The Israeli left kept warning of this scenario, because the end game is either a non democratic jewish state, or a civil war torn single state. This cost the traditional Israeli left (the labor party) to be almost electorally eliminated during these 3 decades.
Now the hegemony opinion is that no peace is possible, and the Palestinians are to be basically ignored.
- Robotbeat 6y agoYeah, I have no idea what the answer is. But if the Palestinians somehow all of a sudden had a massive (and well-organized) military, they couldn’t be ignored and settlers would see it in their interest to leave voluntarily. Then maybe peace could happen. The asymmetry of the military situation means that one side is desperate and the other side sees no reason to compromise, and therefore you have a low level conflict forever which is not actually good for anyone.
- hpcjoe 6y agoThey are ignored as they've proven again and again that their words are not worth the paper that they sign, that they cannot be trusted. That they are as corrupt as an entity could be. That they are unwilling to make hard compromises ... nay ... any compromise whatsoever. Even when compromise enables them to declare "victory" and free their people from a lifetime of violence. The conflict will continue until one side realizes that it has been utterly defeated. This hasn't happened yet. They have been defeated. They just don't want to admit it.
- Robotbeat 6y agoThis seems like it could be applied in either direction.
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- caf 6y agoYou can't really talk about the breakdown of the Oslo accords in the 90s without mentioning the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, can you?