Israel accelerates plans that imperil two-state solution

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7. The same could be said of the other side.

At least one side had rhetoric and public pressure against it.

The other side had rhetoric and public pressure in favor of it.

Had the pressure been equal, I suspect each side could have been put in a position where they thought they might lose, and possibly in positions where they thought they might gain. As it was, one side kept winning in spite of the pressure and the other losing in spite of support.


Your analogy doesn't work, btw. It's a red herring. Parve, but still fishy. If it did work, you'd have to ask why places like Syria and Sa'udiyya didn't donate money to Indian tribes to buy back their land, or support the return of Jews to Trans-Jordan. Group boundaries matter, and in this struggle group boundaries both prevented a solution early on, made solutions mid-point impossible, and continue to stymie any progress. Of course, one group helped its own far, far more than the other. So the first thing that has to change are attitudes.

The scant personal interactions I've had with Israelis and Palestinians or Arab supporters is that Jews are just plain bad by nature and deed, and for the religious the Qur'aan is right; while Palestinians are bad because they've been trying to kill Jews for 70 years and they just need to stop it. In other words, some attitudes need more changing than others.