How can there be fairness when Israel is a paranoid thwat with aggression management issues while Palestine leadership wont be satisfied till Israel is wiped out ..... the fault is not one sided at all. Co existance is easily possible but demanding one party to simply vanish wont achieve it .... If Palestine really doesnt want the War they have to show it with actions such as routing Hamas or at least forcing him to accept the truce offered and stopping the slaughter, them may be becoming a sister state.
Well, existence would be easy for anyone if they simply followed according to one person's decree.
I mean... if everyone just did what I told them to do, there would be world peace. It's pretty simple and easy to do.
The main problem, which you have pointed out, is that there is a very strong presence of those all throughout islamic culture that want Israel destroyed. It really wouldn't matter where they were (though being in the midst of Arabs certainly does them no favors).
It isn't just Hamas. ISIS has declared that it is going to send warriors and/or people to help destroy Israel - or some such nonsense along those lines.
It has become the 'thing to do' for any islamic state to simply blame Israel for whatever problem is at hand. It's too hot outside - it's the damned Zionists (I'm not even sure if they know what that word means - they just use it because it sounds good). Can't get a trade deal? Zionists. Wife left you? Zionist-supporting western culture.
No need to reason through the problems they are facing - forget your problems and don a vest full of bombs for the glory of Allah (actually - talk about an ingenious way to get poor people who hate their existence to work for you).
I'm not so sure there is a truly objective analysis of the situation that paints the islamic nations as anything other than NuckingFutz and Israel as a utilitarian machine driven by the need to survive when surrounded by a bunch of crazies who want to kill them.
At some point, we have to start living in the modern world. Most of the Israelis alive today were not part of whatever decisions were made nearly a century ago to put Israel where it is, now. They were born into an area that they call home - and the group of palestinians that claim the land is theirs were overwhelmingly born elsewhere into a time when the land was not theirs.
There's nothing either side can do about it - except the palestinians have decided that they are going to just be incessant pains in the ass, blame every problem on Israel, and attack it whenever possible.
At some point, each generation must be held accountable for its own decisions and actions. I could be pissed about the discrimination this nation showed to my German ancestors when they first arrived from Germany... or I could go on about my life and develop my talents as an individual as all of my forefathers chose to do. Lo and behold - when we do that - the discrimination issue ceases to exist (of course, so, too, does the power of the politician - which is why you no longer see politicians running on anti-german propaganda like you did back at the turn of the century).
So long as Palestine continually chooses to see itself as the victim - and/or the people who claim to be a part of it neglect to hold their members accountable - peace is simply impossible so long as both parties exist.
The self-victimization is so deeply ingrained into the islamic culture, at this point, that I'm not really sure it's a practical goal - or one worth pursuing, to be honest.
I know that sounds insane to our culture - "Peace not worth pursuing" - but it's like trying to hold peace talks with a gang of bandits who demand protection money. They know that they can survive by threatening to make your life difficult if you don't pay to support their existence. They aren't going to change their ways through a hearts and minds campaign (at least, not very easily) - and about the only thing worth doing is offing the lot of them. Maybe you end up killing a bunch of misled boys along with them - but that's the cost of liberty.
Except Hitlar would have killed/enslaved the non Christians and other 'impure' races too .... Also your prayer actually shows the true colors of the issue: 'murder is ok as long as its not my favored people being killed'.
To be fair - Hitler was typical of European politics. Ethnic cleansing of one variety or another is relatively common. Just look at the break up of Yugoslavia. What many Americans didn't (and still don't) understand about that whole issue is that it was driven by racism and ethnic purging more so than it was by politicians and dictators.
Which is why our noble (but stupid) attempts to bring democracy to them failed miserably. We offed a dictator and slapped the 'bad guys' on the wrists. Then we gave everyone the ability to vote. The 'good guys' elected petty dictators who said hateful things about the 'bad guys' before leading marches to kill them off and drive them out of the country.
And we didn't understand what the **** was going on.
The idea that groups of white people could commit racist acts of violence against each other was inconceivable (particularly when that difference was simply the dialect of a language that had been classified as an entirely separate language and/or a style of clothing).
And while our actions may have been noble (on our part) - it was perceived as an endorsement of one side over the other - or as some weird alien invasion that promised peace yet allowed hateful people to control things. It was basically: ".... What the **** was that? ... Those people were weird. Why the hell did they help those bastards out? ... Eh, doesn't matter, we need to relocate these illiterate ****s who think 'e' is a proper part of the language before our kids inherit such nonsense."
Sure - the politicians/warlords stirred things up - but the culture throughout much of Eruope is one that is very prone to being stirred up by someone accusing some group or another of being the problem that needs to be eliminated.
