[Pointman]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Hey, if you can get Hamas to make peace with Israel, be my guest. If you can't, then I guess have fun being in a war with your neighbours forever.

If I put myself in the mind of a Palestinian for a second, though, I might see your points as suuuuuuper biased. Like, are you seriously telling two million people in Gaza to 'get over it' and accept that Israel calls the shots on how you and everyone you'll ever know and love lives this one life we get on earth. And to 'get over' that your life will totally suck because you live in a giant crappy prison?

Yeah, until you can empathize with what the creation of modern Israel has meant for the other people in the immediate area I don't see how you'll ever get to a solution. Note, I don't think there is a solution that will work for the area. This whole project wasn't built on a stable foundation so it can't work.

As for 73% of Israelis being born there...yeah I have a ton of sympathy for them. They, too, are pawns (or descendents of pawns) that were placed there like in a game of risk where their chance to prosper is always in jeopardy and in need of external support. I understand it's their home. I wouldn't want to leave if I were them, either.

Gazans need to accept that Israel exists and no longer pursue it's total destruction. Then they can just build their own country. Israel has no interest in governing, annexing or in any other way "calling shots" in Gaza.