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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Ya, gotcha. So in this alternate history where Arab nations supported the Palestinians and policed bad actors to prevent any harm to Israel, I presume this would have motivated Israel to not take land for "settlements" and to share water resources in an equal way and not elect governments who advocate for taking everything form the river to the sea as it is their god given right? They'd also be willing to let Palestinians have their own state?
Well geez, you just solved peace in the middle east. Well done.
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Yes, most likely.
You really don’t know the history of this conflict do you? The Palestinians have been offered a state multiple times, as late as 2008. If the Palestinians had been focused on improving their own communities rather than waging war with Israel and fostering Islamic extremism one would imagine they would have had their own state decades ago. Even when given refuge in Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Egypt etc.. the Palestinians continue to wage war with Israel which is precisely why other Arab states do not want to get involved and why Egypt is currently fortifying their border fence with Gaza.
Israel was easing restrictions on Gazans before October 7th, had given more work permits to Gazans than ever before. Israel was going to continue to ease restrictions with the Saudi Peace deal but then October 7th occurred and it was found out that some Gazans who were given work permits were giving intel to Hamas.
So yes, the Palestinians would have had a state if they were not hell bent on war with Israel.
If Israel wanted “river to the sea” why did they completely remove themselves from Gaza in 2005?
Why offer 94% of the West Bank to become a Palestinian state in 2008?