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Originally Posted by Language
So if I were to ask some of you what you thought a viable long term solution was to stability and peace in the region, what would your answer be?
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Personally, I think they need to be brought closer and not pushed away. If you fight the poverty, then Hamas and the likes won't be able to control the population. I think it's less about "who was there first", than it is about a general competetion for wealth and resources. Many Palestinians are immigrants or decendents of immigrants too. When people of the Jewish diaspora were migrating to Israel between 1880 and 1948, Palestinians from Jordan and Egyptians were also migrating there.
The problem is, they have little to no industry and would never be able to form a country on their own. It's probably too late to hope for a "2-nations under one country" system and any independent Palestinian state will likely have to be a welfare state for a long time. Israel shouldn't have to bear that cost alone though. The Palestinians have to take the first step though and lay down their weapons for an extended period of time in order to build some trust. Unfortunately, that won't happen until Hamas and their backers are removed from the picture. As long as they are around, Palestinians will be ruled by fear.