i would to prove a point but... why?
i mean everyone KNOWS that terrorism happens spontaneously, by people that hate us for our wealth and prosperity, right...?
honestly a lot of terror in this world is the direct outgrowth of cause-and-effect. there are some very complex situations but i just don't see the logic of crying about burns after pouring gas onto fires.
israel is a nation that engages in terror, on a grand scale, and the payback comes in the form of attacks on their citizenry.
in a way they didn't 'start it', but in a way they make the palestinians pay for transgressions by egypt and syria in the 40s.
israel needs the lands surrounding it to guarantee egypt and syria don't steamroll it with armour, and the palestinians are in the way.
so, their land was appropriated, even though the percentage of palestinian arabs that raised arms against israel at its inception is far lower than that number is today.
palestinians born under occupation, with airstrikes coming all the time and homes being bulldozed by extremist settlers that honestly plan to kill them all, can get pulled in directions we could never understand or appreciate.
the agreement in 1993 looked workable, but the new wave of terror against israel did not start up right after that.
it started after record-setting settler construction. illegal settlements started going up in places already promised to the palestinians.
israel's political system often requires concessions by likud or labour, the two strong parties, to the extremist right that represent maybe 5% of domestic opinion.
israelis will be paying for that forever now, because the demonization on both sides passed a point of no return sometime in 2000.
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