A better way was offered at Camp David in 2000. Arafat walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer. Israeli PM Barak offered deeply unpopular and unprecedented concessions. Saudi prince Bandar described not accepting the deal or negotiating further as criminal. Arafat won popularity when he walked away.
That is just one incident in a long and complicated history, but the point is that there’s more than enough blame to go around and there were other options.
Time and again, both parties chose to continue further down this road. They’ll likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I say likely, because that isn’t even the worst case scenario. Israel’s government is arguably borderline far right now, so it’s not impossible that this will all escalate so much that there one way or another, it’s ‘resolved’ through outright violence.
A better way was offered at Camp David in 2000. Arafat walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer. Israeli PM Barak offered deeply unpopular and unprecedented concessions. Saudi prince Bandar described not accepting the deal or negotiating further as criminal. Arafat won popularity when he walked away.
That is just one incident in a long and complicated history, but the point is that there’s more than enough blame to go around and there were other options.
Time and again, both parties chose to continue further down this road. They’ll likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I say likely, because that isn’t even the worst case scenario. Israel’s government is arguably borderline far right now, so it’s not impossible that this will all escalate so much that there one way or another, it’s ‘resolved’ through outright violence.