The so-called “Palestinians” have NEVER been interested in living in their own state, side-by-side with Israel.
- Not when Transjordan was split off from Palestine;
- Not in the 2 or so years before Israeli independence was declared;
- Not after Israel won its war for independence against 5 invading Arab armies
- Not in 1964 when the PLO was founded with the EXPLICIT goal (3 years BEFORE any of the currently disputed territories were taken over by Israel) of destroying Israel
- Not after the 1967 6 Day War, when Israel offered to give back ALL of the territories (including Jerusalem) in exchange for peace with all of the Arabs
- Not after negotiating specifically for this in the Oslo Accords in 1993
- Not after Ehud Barak offered them 97% of the territory of the “West Bank” in exchange for peace
- Not after Israel just GAVE the Paleoswinians all of the Gaza Strip (which, just as a reminder to those ignorant of the facts, had been without any dispute EGYPTIAN territory before the 1967 war), at the cost of expelling over 9,000 Israeli citizens who had labored and spent money for the previous 40 years to make a home and a productive place out of that territory.
- Not any time since then
They are not interested in peace, they are interested in rage against Israel and the primary component of Israel - Jews. They had a chance to create a paradise, one subsidized by most of the world, in Gaza...but instead chose to destroy productive property handed to them on a silver platter and use that territory to (once again) attack innocent Israelis.
The Palestinians have done nothing but EXACTLY what Golda Meir said that the Arabs do: “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” Why do they do this, you may ask? Simple, and again the answer was provided by Mrs. Meir: “There will be peace in the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” Clearly, these characteristics have not changed - if anything, they have intensified. So, they don’t want peace, then phuck’em!
“by Mrs. Meir: “There will be peace in the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”
One of the stupidest utterances ever by a person in a position of responsibility for her people’s lives.
Of course the Arabs love their children! They love them SO much that they wish glorious martyrdom slaughtering Jews for them, with perpetual life in paradise instead of life on this rock.
Poor foolish Golda’s error was to presume all people are the same and want the same things. Maybe she took the “Its a Small World After All” ride at Disney, who knows?
People are not all the same, and they don’t all want the same things. The Arabs want the Jews in Israel dead. That problem won’t be solved by wishful thinking about Arab mothers being really Jewish mothers under the burka. Nothing could be further from the truth.