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Originally Posted by blankall
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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.
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The quotes you posted of King Hussein and his brother doesn't mean that there shouldn't be a Palestine.There are many ethnicities that occupy shared borders of 2countries, doesn't mean that those 2lands should merge or that the inhabitants of one country should go with their "brothers" in another country. As for the other quotes about there never being an actual country called Palestine, how is that relevant? There was never a Pakistan when it was created, there was never a South Sudan when it was created. The important thing was that there were people there for many centuries who wanted their own state.
That being said, I agree with your last paragraph. Israel is a fait accompli. The Palestinians have to understand that. I' m Muslim and I have no problem with even an Israel that wants to be a Jewish majority state forever. The holy sites of the Jewish people are there, their history is there, they deserve a Jewish country. The Palestinians have to get over the whole, well my grandpa lived there. Yes, bad things happened at the creation of Israel which forced people out of their homes. But,it's time to move on. Just because your ancestors were displaced doesn't mean you should displace the current population who has been there several generations now.