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Originally Posted by ianch99
It is a statement you were implying .. or were you? Don't dance around the subject, just say if you agree or disagree with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. If you think it is justified, just say so.
The bottom line is that the re-election of Netanyahu is fundamental obstacle to a peaceful resolution of this conflict. He will increase the polarisation of the Israeli and Palestinian position: the illegal land grabs on one side and the pathetic Hamas missile responses on the other will just cement the divide.
The longer this goes on as it is, the more difficult/impossible a peaceful resolution will become. The Palestinian children, growing up in Gaza will become tomorrows suicide bombers attacking Israeli civilians ... sow and ye shall reap .. a saying that seems very apt for this part of the world.
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You are looking for binary answers where none exist. Agree/disagree. Justified/not justified. Sorry, but it isn't that simple, and it is quite naive to expect any meaningful position on an issue to be developed in a few short sentences when the issue has defied the keenest politicians in the world for many decades.
I both understand the Palestinians' demands to right-of-return, and the reasons why Israel will never agree to it.
I understand Israel's need to hold the West Bank as part of a strategy to make its home territory defensible, given the invasions it suffered in 1967 and 1973 and the continuing aspiration of some in the Arab world to "drive Israel into the sea".
I understand the Palestinians demands to have territory under their total and exclusive control, given that that was what was in principle envisaged by the UN prior to the creation of Israel in 1948.
There are pragmatic aims on both sides, and both sides have used highly dubious tactics in pursuit of them. There is no black and white, there is no agree or disagree, and any negotiated settlement to this dispute will have to deal with things as they are. Any attempt to satisfy some perceived moral outrage on one side or the other is doomed to fail.