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Originally Posted by jammies
The idea behind an equal Palestinian state, with a constitutional congress overseen by a third party, is that it should be independent and have its own army, courts, and other paraphernalia of centralized, strong governance that makes irregulars like Hezbollah and Hamas untenable within its borders. The idea that you can keep the Palestinians weak and divided enough to "destroy terrorism" fails precisely because the weak and divided are susceptible to violent extremists who promise strength and unity.
Lebanon has never been the same since the Israelis invaded it in the 1980s, the south is an ungovernable chaos that they periodically raid or invade with no long-term plan other than hoping it will magically stop breeding the disaffected. Instead of learning from this, they've doubled down on it by making Gaza a ghetto and the West Bank a defacto occupation zone. While it doesn't excuse the actions of Hamas, who are a death cult of vile, reprehensible fanatics, Israel has chosen violence in preference to peace and is no longer fighting against terrorism but instead promulgating its own, less virulent but still abhorrent terror brand.
There are no easy solutions - building a prosperous, independent Palestine would likely take decades and would require outside capital (hence the reparations, which would not only be symbolic of Israel acknowledging that they owe a debt for taking Palestinian land, especially Gaza, but necessary to build a strong state that isn't beholden to Iranian or Saudi money) and vast, painful effort. However, the best time to start a long-term project is always now.
The fascist Netanyahu will never do this, certainly. The Israelis look to keep going down this self-destructive path, eventually ending up in the same place as their enemies, just with a different flag. Peace is "impossible", so instead it'll be permanent war.
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Your post perhaps deserves a longer and more thoughtful response, but one thing is factually incorrect and needs to be addressed. People tend to forget, that Israel bought, not stole, Palestinians lands. It is acknowledged even in Palestinian sources, such as below:
The main feature of the second period, which began soon after the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and extends from 1921 to 1947, is the establishment of Jewish settlements, the Kibbutzim, with the encouragement of such Jewish institutions as the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association,* the Palestine Land Development Company and the Jewish National Fund. The purpose of these three institutions was to transfer the Jewish populations of Europe to Palestine and provide them with facilities, homes, jobs and especially land in the new host country. It has been estimated that by about June 1947, the Jewish minority in Palestine had taken over 1,850,000 dunams** out of a total of 13 million dunams, mainly as a result of transactions between the above-mentioned Jewish institutions and the big Arab landowners of Palestine.3/
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208638/
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208638/