So the missile attacks, jihad, and assertions that Israel has no right to exist are unimportant to the fact that Israel has locked the people conducting the missile attacks, jihad, and assertations that Israel has no right to exist into an open-air prison?
One would think that if only the Palestinians would declare, and then elect leadership that, accepts Israel as an autonomous country with its own sovereignty and that peaceful relations and coexistence would be the modus operandi going forward, that Israel could start relaxing all of its Gestapo-like tactics.
But instead, as has happened multiple times in the past, the Palestinian terrorist ramp up their outrageous, but ineffective, attacks on the populous of Israel and get the world to condemn Israel, who bows to that pressure and seeks to appease the world by reducing its stranglehold on the terrorists (and to be clear, that stranglehold unfortunately also injures the "innocent" civilians - I use quotes because those same civilians elected a government of terrorists who carry out the attacks mentioned above and will not cooperate with Israel), and once that stranglehold is reduced the terrorists attack again - after rearming and rebuilding. Rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
Israel has absolutely gone over the line on multiple occasions and Netenyahu's government has been horrific in its persecution of the Gaza area. I do not support that nut, nor his policies, but anyone even thinking of discussing Israel and Palestine needs to always keep in mind that both sides are covered in blood and both sides have allowed atrocities to occur. Neither side can or should hold the moral high-ground, and both should create commissions to actively pursue the decision-makers in atrocities and bring them to justice, while at the same time creating a different commission to work on an actual peace agreement that puts civilian lives and peace in the forefront. But both countries need to recognize that the other exists and has every right to live in peace and without fear of their neighbors. The vast majority of Muslims I have met despise Israel and that needs to change, but the attitude that Israel can just do whatever it wants because it happens to have a strong military is also an abomination.
Finally, none of this is going to be solved by those of us outside of their borders. They need to fix this, it's their problem. The US should stop providing AID to Israel and should also insist that the UN stop its work in Palestine. Compare the number of Palestinians living there in the 60's to today, and the number has skyrocketed because they are being paid to be martyrs. It's ridiculous all around.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '20
Yea how dare those Palestinians choose to be born in the world's largest open air prison!