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Originally Posted by Sliver
That 40% pre-October 7 is pathetic, BTW. Way too low. Peace? Fk that! I can't imagine. I thank the stars everyday I wasn't raised in a religious home.
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That's the problem, even during periods with little violence, both sides have significant amounts of their population and leadership who are basically intractable.
So you end up having the Israeli Prime Minister offering to cede about 95% of the West Bank for the creation of a Palestinian State in 2008, but the Palestinian Authority rejected that proposal, even though it's likely the best they'll ever get.
On the other hand, you have the West Bank having periods of general calm where the Palestinian Authority was pretty reasonable in its dealings with Israel. But the only result was Israel building more and more settlements and taking more and more land, while simultaneously degrading Palestinian infrastructure.
And then 10-11 years ago (which was a somewhat calm period) you also had significant portions of Jewish Israelis supporting systematic discrimination against Arab Israelis, including:
-1/3rd wanting the voting rights of Arabic Israeli citizens to be taken away
-59% wanting preference given to non-Arabs in government jobs
-49% wanting the state to give preference to Jews over Arabs in basically all matters
-42% not wanting their kids to be in the same class as an Arabic child
And in that same poll, 58% of Israelis agreed that Israel practised apartheid against Palestinians. So in light of that, it's not hard to see why little to no progress has been made on this.