Defiant Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on opposition to Palestinian statehood, deepening the divide with Israel’s closest international allies, as cracks in his wartime “unity” government became increasingly evident.
Anger with Netanyahu is also increasingly visible on the streets, even though there is broad public support for the war. On Saturday, protesters gathered in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Caesarea and Kfar Saba, some calling for bolder action to secure the release of hostages, and others demanding the prime minister step down.
One in Jerusalem held a placard that read: “Mothers’ cry: we will not sacrifice our children in the war to save the rightwing.”
TLDR; Hamas massacre was a wrong move that delays the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu is doing the right move by putting his country’s security above all.
A Palestinian sovereignty cannot be established because by all means it’s a threat to Israel’s security.
As an example, Hamas 07/10 massacre launched from a Palestinian sovereignty, called Gaza (Gaza received it’s sovereignty just 18 years ago).
The quest for a Palestinian state is by all means not peaceful. It’s brutal full of bloodshed from both sides.
Palestinians don’t look for peace, and as a consequence of this war, Israel is also don’t.
The Palestinians only look for undoing the what so called “Nakba”, a thing that will never happen, as long as Israel exists.
And Israel is looking for a security, by all means.
Palestinian sovereign living alongside Israel = Israel is NOT safe and NOT secure.
As I wrote earlier, the Palestinians are not looking for peace.
Palestinian state is NOT the only path to Israel’s long-term security.
This is a clue for this article bias, as they didn’t separated the number of Hamas militant casualties from Palestinian civilians casualties.
You know, I’m not actually taking your nonsensical take seriously, but lemme just say a few things:
Israel will never give Palestinians a state willingly; they’ll need to be forced by either Palestinians themselves, the Arab world or the international community. This became obvious in 1996.
Gaza is still considered occupied by the UN.
Israel has never looked for peace. Again see 1996.
Stop shilling for Zionists.
It didn’t work for 75 years, and only causes bloodshed from both sides, and the delay of a Palestinian state.
Unfortunately I don’t understand the 1996 reference.
Per by this comment, here is a list of peace offers which would grant the Palestinians a country of their own, they refused all of them (total of 22 offers):
1937 - Peel commission, rejected
1947 - Partition resolution, rejected
2000 - Camp David, rejected
2001 - Taba, rejected. Arafat starts the second intifada and a year later changes his mind.
2008 - Olmert offer, rejected
Hamas have tried to agree to boundaries Despite media attempts to portray it as a new Hamas charter, it is not. The new ‘policy document’ accepts the creation of a Palestinian state in 1967 borders, but still rejects Israel and claims its territory. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39775103
Here are some other noteworthy peace meeting or proposals from Israel to the rest if the Arab world, which were rejected
1919: Arabs of Palestine refused nominate representatives to the Paris Peace Conference.
1920: San Remo conference decisions, rejected.
1922: League of Nations decisions, rejected.
1937: Peel Commission partition proposal, rejected.
1938: Woodhead partition proposal, rejected
1947: UN General Assembly partition proposal (UNGAR 181), rejected.
1949: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNGAR 194), rejected.
1967: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNSCR 242), rejected.
1978: Begin/Sa’adat peace proposal, rejected (except for Egypt).
1994: Rabin/Hussein peace agreement, rejected by the rest of the Arab League (except for Egypt).
1995: Rabin’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.
2000: Barak/Clinton peace offer, rejected.
2001: Barak’s offer at Taba, rejected.
2005: Sharon’s peace gesture, withdrawal from Gaza, rejected.
2008: Olmert/Bush peace offer, rejected.
2009 to 2021: Netanyahu’s repeated invitations to peace talks, rejected.
2014: Kerry’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.
Not gonna link Trump’s imbecilic peace plan as an example.
Here is a list of peace offers the Palestinians offered to Israel -
None
“Delay” you’re speaking like Palestinians were promised a state at any time after 1948.
When Netanyahu just decided to ignore the Oslo accords after Rabin was assassinated.
I wonder why Palestinians didn’t want their land to be stolen and used to build an Apartheid state.
Okay this is just a bad faith take. These two are extensions of the same negotiations, and let’s see what Israel’s then foreign affairs minister had to say about them:
TL;DR: Israel’s Camp David terms were so horrible that as long as they didn’t budge on them (which they didn’t; the idea that Arafat didn’t compromise is Israeli propaganda) no sane Palestinian would accept them.
Since the offer went on behind the scenes, nobody actually knows what happened, so I won’t comment on it.
1919: Arabs of Palestine refused nominate representatives to the Paris Peace Conference.
1920: San Remo conference decisions, rejected.
1922: League of Nations decisions, rejected.
1937: Peel Commission partition proposal, rejected.
1938: Woodhead partition proposal, rejected
1947: UN General Assembly partition proposal (UNGAR 181), rejected.
1949: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNGAR 194), rejected.
1967: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNSCR 242), rejected.
1978: Begin/Sa’adat peace proposal, rejected (except for Egypt).
1994: Rabin/Hussein peace agreement, rejected by the rest of the Arab League (except for Egypt).
1995: Rabin’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.
2000: Barak/Clinton peace offer, rejected.
2001: Barak’s offer at Taba, rejected.
2005: Sharon’s peace gesture, withdrawal from Gaza, rejected.
2008: Olmert/Bush peace offer, rejected.
2009 to 2021: Netanyahu’s repeated invitations to peace talks, rejected.
2014: Kerry’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.
I know you copy pasted this, because I’ve sent his exact nonsense list before, and lemme just say this: Check what you copy before you copy it. Two of these are UN resolutions that Israel refuses to follow, and the 2014 offer is one where Netanyahu wasn’t even trying. According to the American Envoy he was unquestionably at fault.
First, thank you for the detailed response, which I’ll response to as such.
At that time, Shimon Peres was the prime minister of Israel, so Netanyahu’s stand wasn’t even relevant. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Israel)
Anyway,
(“Oslo II” created the Areas A, B and C in the West Bank, Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_II_Accord. However, these areas still have Palestinian terror acts)
Palestinians, at that time, didn’t had ownership over the area of Palestine. because it was an official Mandate of the United Kingdom. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine)
How’s Israel an apartheid state when it has 21% Arabs citizens from the Palestinian origin?
The “1937 - Peel commission” is an Investigation of the causes of the 1936 Arab revolt in Palestine, which in short was an uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British demanding Arab independence and the end of the policy of open-ended Jewish immigration.
The Arabs of that time didn’t have any stand of the Jewish immigration, as it was under the British auspices.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936–1939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine
Same argument is relevant for “1947 - Partition resolution”.
In 2000 Camp David Summit, “The Palestinian negotiators indicated they wanted full Palestinian sovereignty over the entire West Bank and the Gaza Strip”. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit)
The Palestinians received sovereignty over Gaza strip at 5 years later in 2005. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza).
Guess what happened just 18 years later, from that Palestinian sovereignty? You guessed right, Hamas 07/10 massacre.
OK.
You didn’t reply on the rest of the peace rejection, so I’ll consider them to be agreed otherwise stated.
This sentence, and the list you provided, strengthening and supporting what I wrote on my comment above:
Palestinians don’t look for peace.
They only look for undoing the what so called “Nakba”, a thing that will never happen, as long as Israel exists.
It seems like the state of Israel is threatening the security of the whole region. Better to get rid of Israel for the security of her region.
I don’t agree. Especially when your comment isn’t article post based nor sources based.
And Israel is an established independent country, you can’t just “rid of” a country.
But it would be doing the right thing by placing the security of the Palestinians and neighboring countries above all else.
Neighboring Jordan and Egypt are secured, so your comment is false. Why they are secured you asked? Because they want peace and accept it, in contrast to the ones who don’t want it.
Even though your comment is false, let give it a try.
In Israel there are 21% Arabs with Palestinian origin, do you want to get rid of them as well? If not let me know your sophisticated “getting rid of” partition (hint: antisemitism will be reported).
All of the Palestinian economy and Arabs living in Israel are based on the Israeli economy and currency (New Israeli Shekel), getting rid of Israel meaning destroying these people economy (which will only lead to more crime and terror, see Syria as an example).
So “getting rid of Israel” will be required to win also the US army. Source: https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-israel/
Oh, and Israel has a nuke, so the ones that will try to “get rid of it” will be nuked immediately as a last resort solution, which is a loose-loose situation.
You seem to be missing their entire point so I’ll state it in plane language to you.
You are advocating demolishing Palestine being justifiable because it places the security of Israel above all. The above poster is flipping your logic on you and saying demolishing Israel is justifiable as it places the security of Palestine above all.
Thanks for the explanation.
Let me rephrase my comment:
Netanyahu is doing the right move by putting his country’s security above all by delaying the establishment of Palestinian state or sovereignty.
I didn’t advocate for Palestinian demolish.
This is why I didn’t agree with the above post sophisticated “flipped logic” comment.
I’ll state again: Palestinians don’t look for peace nor a state. They look to undo the what so called “Nakba”, a thing that will happen as long as Israel exists.