Gregory's Server@J12t Because the policy of the Israeli state is to undermine the possibility Palestinian survival. Having friendly Palestinian neighbors would be pressure to make those Palestinians full citizens, which would make it harder to have an ethno-state.
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 @J12t It doesn't take long visiting the West Bank, and seeing the settlements and the Israeli-only roads, to understand that the "two state solution" was always a fiction.  @J12t Me neither. My time there was 10 years ago, and from what I read things have only gotten worse: https://killingthebuddha.com/mag/dispatch/the-hourglass/ @ntnsndr Good piece! And just about every power in the region is using the Palestinian cause as a pawn on their own chessboard without meaning a word of it. Case in point, the current situation. I can see that Hanas' attack is useful for Iran. For Palestinians themselves, there is no upside whatsoever that I can see. @J12t Absolutely true. The situation is in not simple, but few matters of international relations are. But there are other ways in which it is simpler than the global discourse makes it appear. A decades-long military occupation. That is what provides the fodder for others to exploit. |
@ntnsndr a two state solution would not have that aspect to it, so I’m not convinced this argument works.