Israel-Palestine: Which "solution" do you prefer?

[h2ohno]

No current solution will bring peace. Hamas, which controls Gaza, doesn't even pay lip service to the idea of peace and turned Gaza into a terror state whose entire economy is focused on attacking Israel rather than trying to make life better for Gazans. The same thing would happen in the West Bank if Israel pulled out.

And even if Hamas was a non-factor, the evidence strongly suggests that Fatah still sees the creation of a Palestinian State as part of a multi-phase process in the destruction of Israel rather than an end-goal in and of itself. They continue to spew the worst forms of anti-Semitism, teach their children in schools and on state television that there is nothing more heroic than dying while killing Jews, even small children, continue to honor and name streets and stadiums after people who murder children, continue to pay lifetime salaries to terrorist murderers - the more innocent people murdered, the higher the salary. They continue to deny Israel's right to exist in any borders, whether the current borders, the post-1949 borders, or the UN's proposed 1947 borders. And they refuse to acknowledge Jewish history, continuously denying that there is any Jewish connection whatsover to Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, the Western Wall, Rachel's Tomb, the list goes on. Abbas has turned down a number of very generous offers of a Palestinian state with much of east Jerusalem as its capital because he can't sign a piece of paper declaring the conflict over. And he has directly incited violence and murder himself with his statements that no Jew will be allowed to "desecrate" the Temple Mount "with their filthy feet" - Abbas' exact words just 2 years ago when a growing number of Jews wanted to visit the holiest site in Judaism.

And even if the Palestinians were completely ready for peace, Iran is still committed to Israel's destruction, as its its terrorist proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Under the circumstances, any Israeli withdrawal would result in a Hamas or Iranian controlled terrorist state like Gaza or Lebanon which would continue to be at continuous war with Israel. Even if Hamas and Iran were removed as a factor, Fatah has spent so many decades teaching its people that Jews are subhuman and that all of 'Palestine' must be 'liberated' from the river to the sea that the population would never except a peace deal that leaves Israel still around as anything other than a betrayal. And with the weakness of Abbas' Palestinian Authority the leaders would be killed. It doesn't help that the PA is one of the most corrupt, anti-democratic, and autocratic governments in the world which and is already hated by the Palestinians because of it.

The PA's decades of brainwashing its people to see killing Jews as the most heroic thing a man or woman can do in their life makes the other solutions untenable as well. So much violence would follow any attempt at a federation or one-state solution.

Peace is pretty much impossible this generation. The first step has to be changing the PA media and education systems to remove all anti-Semitism and acknowledge the Jewish history and connection with Israel and its holy sites going back 3,000 years. That will probably take a generation. Only then can peace be feasible, and Israelis and Palestinians can decide for themselves which solution would work best.

In my opinion, the entire PA needs to be be replaced before peace is possible. Both Hamas and Fatah need to be removed from power and replaced with a government that isn't made up of terrorists.