Quote (ferdia @ 11 Apr 2024 15:02)
I’ve been living in Israel my entire life. And I am completely certain the average Israeli would be ecstatic to put down their weapons and be complete friends with their neighboring Palestinians and other countries.
Israelis don’t hate Arabs. They don’t anyone who doesn’t hate them. The average person in this country just wants to go to the beach, eat falafel, drink some coffee, and comfortably pay their bills. They don’t want to kill. They certainly don’t want to see their friends and families killed. Their greatest desire is to just move on and have a normal life.
But the ball’s not in our court. As Golda Meir famously said, “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel” We want to stop fighting. But war and hatred will always be the norm so long as someone wants to kill us. If they can move on, peace is possible.
As to why doesn't Israel stop building settlements if it really wants peace?
There are settlements that were aimed at restoring former Jewish areas that existed in the West Bank prior to 1967 but had been cleansed of their population by the Jordanians, or the Arabs who lived there (Hebron massacre for example) This is the case in Jerusalem, H2 in Hebron, Shiloh, the Gush Etzion area and parts of the Jordan Valley.
These ones will most likey remain a part of Israel for both religious and historical ties and because some of them have a lot of people now.
Gush Etzion will definitely never become a part of the Palestinian state. It was actually one of the most Jewish areas of the British mandate before the Arabs massacred the original population
There are settlements that were established to basically extend the depth of the Gush Dan and are militarily strategic. A lot of the settlements in the triangle area between Modi'in Ilit, Ariel and the Jesusalem-Tel Aviv Highway are of this kind.
Israel will never let these ones go either because they are now home to hundreds of thousands of people and even in past agreements, it was agreed that this area would become a part of Israel.
Same to those like Tekoa and the likes can easily be incorporated into Israel as well
There are settlements that are basically urban spillovers from Israel proper. A part of Jerusalem is this way like Maale Adumin. A few of these can be given back to the Palestinians though or land swaps.
Hilltop settlements. These are settlements that have been deliberately established to disrupt the creation of a Palestinian state, with many of them being established right next to Palestinian towns and cities. These ones are the ones that are the most problematic and IMO but not one was expelled for those lands it simply unjust in my opinion and Israel (not right now ofc, will evict them)
But nothing will happened until the Arabs will accept our presence.
Until than we will keep building, defending, fighting what ever is necessary to protect Israelis both Arabs and Jews
AlJazeera is funded by Qatar who also funds Hamas they are the ones who posted the hospital bombardment which never happened and rest of the bs
This post was edited by Many_Names on Apr 11 2024 06:21am