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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
Palestinians need to choose a better future for themselves and actually look at Israel as part of their way out of this mess. Iran and Hamas is not the way.
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You're treating Palestinians like a homogenous group. Which makes sense, you tend to think in these terms as criticizing a subset of Israelis always equates to antisemitism for you.
There is a subset of Palestinians that want nothing more than peace.
How to achieve that peace is obviously extremely difficult when there are a bunch of terrorists among them. Putting a wall up and having security check points may help temporarily with the security issues, but the terrorists will always be plotting and stockpiling for their next attack.
Palestinian kids are growing up being told about Israelis by people that hate them and inheriting that hate. What fixes these problems is humanizing the other side. Palestinian kids need to be playing with Israeli kids and making friends that causes them to question the narratives they hear that all Israelis are evil.
How to do these things without risking security is hard. The Irish did it by putting gates in the peace walls and opening them during the day so the kids could use playgrounds on each side, or even attend school together in some cases.
What doesn't work is what is happening in areas that have mixed population, such as the West Bank. Having the military, police and community leaders allow the Settlers to harass and displace Palestinians with no repercussions is going backwards and creating more Palestinians that grow up hating Israelis based on their first hand experience.
Yes the Palestinians need to sort themselves out, but it's time for people like yourself to stop excusing the actions of the subset of Israelis that are actively making this problem worse.