Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Full Explanation.

[DanneSandin]

Egann said:
There are several omissions going on.

First and foremost, Hamas has bombed Israel with rockets in the past. The last time was in 2009, for instance, when Hamas started bombing Israel after a cease fire expired.

Second, Hamas has been using schools as hiding places for weapons and missiles this time. It's easy to blame Israel for killing children when you yourself don't have bombs coming at you.


The real problem is that Israel was conceived of as a racist nation. It was made because in the aftermath of WWII no one wanted to deal with the Jews Hitler had relocated. It was a place to dispose of the issue while pretending to be nice (the correct solution would have been to have allied nations offer citizenship.)

THEN, the discriminated against Jews discriminated against the Palestinians by making an apartheid in Israel because more discrimination totally solves problems. Again, the correct solution would have been to offer citizenship to the Palestinians.

Fast forward 70 years and here we are. Fundamentally, the problem is racial tension which is getting exacerbated by Israel's unique political situation and more than a bit of class envy. It's not the other way around. Consequently that idea of making Palestine its own state cannot possibly work because it is an extension of the apartheid neighborhoods which caused problems in the first place.

The ONLY correct solution is for Israel to offer Palestinians citizenship in Israel and for the Palestinians to accept. Even if we could get Israel to swallow their pride and make that offer (and I don't think we can) I doubt the Palestinians would ever accept. Everybody's too proud.

I'm sorry, but I can't pity people who hide bombs in schools (or bomb schools) because they're too proud to admit they're in the wrong. Your pride is worth a lot, but it's not worth somebody else's life. Let people who want to leave be refugees someplace else and let the idiots bomb each other until the earth of their homeland has turned to glass. It's not like we can do anything to stop them.

I think this is the best post in the entire thread so far!