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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
Organisations like Hamas exist in response to the oppression and occupation by Israel on the Palestinian people. It's where they get their power and relevance. Israel is not interested in a two state solution, nor is that even likely possible at this point. None of this makes Israel the bad guy, there is no "bad guy." Oversimplifying the history and goals of these people, on both sides, is one of the greatest injustices casual observes can commit.
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On the contrary, negotiations for a two state solution were in play during the 2009-2010 negotiations with a roadmap for Palestinian self-governance accepted by Israel and possible statehood. The PA was forced to walked from the negotiations by a Hamas-led coalition of militant groups over the possibility of compromise on the current state of Israeli settlements. The cancer to middle eastern peace then as is now is Hamas.
If you go back far enough you could also blame the British for making the current mess too. And I would argue Israeli oppression exist because of past aggression by Palestinians against Israeli people. Have there been any direct suicide attacks in Israeli cities since the walls went up? Aside from the current one's in the tunnels? While its no one side here completely free of blame, we tend to see an overall trend of broken truces and inability to compromise on one side.
A reasonable person might conclude that Hamas, which started the current war, wants it to continue and Hamas is relying on Israel's lack of concern for collateral damage against civilian sites that Hamas has turned into military installations (i.e. rockets in UN schools, i.e. UN hospital used for Hamas headquarters), to continue the conflict.