Three Israelis lynched on way to a pub

[Rath]

Kudistos Megistos said:

Rath said:

Well having a country established right on top of you probably does build up a national identity pretty fast.

Needing an excuse to demonise said country also helps to speed up the identity building process, I've heard. As does not being allowed to live in any other Arab state.

I'm sure that the situation could have been dealt with much more easily if Egypt and Syria, two real countries, had offered to take care of the Arabs in Palestine, but that might have made it harder to justify bombing Israel. We couldn't have that, could we?

To be honest the Israelis and Arabs didn't really need an excuse to hate each other in the first place =/

The bad blood goes back before the creation of Israel and that certainly worsened things. The fact that the Palestinians are stateless is wrong, but can't really be blamed on Egypt and Syria. I'm assuming you mean that Egypt and Syria (why Syria by the way? Jordan is more logical) should expand to encompass the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (I'm hoping you don't mean the Palestinians should be forced to leave these places...?), this doesn't really work because the Palestinians do now have a national identity - even if they didn't before.

Also I don't think you can blame all of the violence in the Middle East on the Arab states wanting to bomb Israel, the violence has definitely gone both ways and been caused by both sides.