Kissinger's quote on Arafat and the Palestinian cause was that they would never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, the Palestinians and their cause have been used as a convenient tool by every Muslim regime in the region to bolster support among their populations, they basically pay the leaders of Hamas and the old PLO to be intransigent because it sells well back in the mosque.
It is always going to be difficult to persuade the Palestinian diaspora to willingly give up land that their Grand parents and in many cases their parents farmed, our native population are still rightfully resentful of our theft of their land 150 years ago, the Arab population has only had 50 years or so to get used to it, vast numbers of them remember owning and living in a piece of what is now wholly Jewish Israel, even if they lived in relative comfort that would be difficult to swallow, that they live in abject poverty with no hope for any change for them selves or their children must fill them with utter rage.
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