Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
Yeah... they'd probably get official statehood within 5 years, be fully autonomous in under 10....
not sure how much land they'd gain back after that... but i'd rather have 90% of my country and prosperous, then have 0% of my country with a longshot of having it all and being poor.
Me... I get it though.
The Palestine Authority is greatly disliked and only in the West Bank because it's seen as the best chance for a negotiation. Once the negotiations actually happen, chances are the PA bigshots will be powerless in the new government and a lot of them are corrupt and don't want to lose said power.
Hamas... gets it's support political wing wise based on the sole issue of "Israel is the enemy."
Such a position is not teneable if Palestine were a true country with all the consequences such stances like that would have on the world stage. I think the only reason most governments don't recognize Hamas as the true leaders of Gaza is because then all the rockets being shot are very clearly acts of war that would give Israel far more leeway in everything they're doing.
That said though Hamas' power would also fall apart in a realized Palestine that had to focus on real solutions and not on "We all hate Israel." Well that and likely the disbanding of Hamas would be a requirement for peace. What with them basically being behind all the terrorist attacks.
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This is a point i've been maintaining. The first half moreso than the latter one, that statehood would defeat Hamas, which is why its up to the Israelis to double down first if they really want peace
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Or one would hope anyway.
Of course there is the opposite that could happen. Israel doubles down for peace, Hamas stays in power or whoever does... lets fringe groups still keep firing rockets at Israel figuring that Israel won't invade.
Israel then invades the newly constructed Palestine, and now there can be basically never be a peace.
It's pretty much the reason Palestine has to go first. There is only going to be one real shot at a two state soulution and if 95% Palestinians aren't serious, it's going to lead to some huge problems.
