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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro

Here's the thing though, it's not an equal comparison. One side has suffered tangible loss, whether it be land, resources, or whatever. The other side lives a much more comfortable life. Obviously, the side that has lost something will have more extreme views regarding the other side. This is why you don't see the neighboring Arab nations calling for Israel's destruction, they haven't been directly impacted. Here is what ISRAEL'S first PM, David Ben-Gurion said,

"Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?" The Jewish Paradox : A personal memoir (1978)

Some more quotes

"Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is one people and one land, with one history and one and the same fate."
- Prince Hassan, brother of King Hussein, addressing the Jordanian National Assembly, 2nd February 1970

"There is no family on the East Bank of the river (Jordan) that does not have relatives on the West Bank ... no family in the west that does not have branches in the east."
- King Hussein, addressing the Jordanian National Assembly, 2nd February 1972

"We consider it necessary to clarify to one and all, in the Arab world and outside, that the PALESTINIAN PEOPLE with its nobility and conscience is to be found HERE on the EAST Bank (of the Jordan River), The WEST Bank and the Gaza Strip. Its overwhelming majority is HERE and nowhere else."
- King Hussein, quoted in An-Hahar, Beirut, 24th August 1972


In 1937, the Arab leader Auni Bey Abdul Hadi told the Peel Commission: "There is no such country as Palestine . Palestine is alien to us."

In 1946, Princeton's Arab professor of Middle East history, Philip Hitti, told the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: "It's common knowledge, there is no such thing as Palestine in history."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, an executive member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), said in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw: "The 'Palestinian people' does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel."

The majority of Israelis are descended from refugees from Arab countries. None expect to get anything from any of those Arabs. They gave up and were forced out of land several times the size of Israel.

I agree it would be awful to be a Palestinian and don't downplay their loss, but the fact of the matter is Israel is not going anywhere. Any organization whose sole goal is to destroy Israel is going to come up on the losing side and so are the people who support them. Palestine's best option right now is through peaceful means. Like I said before they have a chance to take back about 95% of the West Bank right now. They'll have a chance to negotiate for more. They won't get anything, except cruise missiles in their backyards, through violence.