Abrignac wrote:I’m sure at a minimum toddlers and such aren’t out there actively carrying out attacks on anyone so that pretty much rules out all being combatants. IIRC Hamas didn’t win the elections by unanimous consent so that rules out even more. That said the populace is certainly overwhelming anti-Israeli.
On the other hand, I can’t believe anyone was foolish enough back in 1948 to believe that by forcing 500,000+ people from there homes any sort of peace would ever be possible. The notion of a 2 state solution is equally foolish. In what world is anyone foolish enough to believe that having being expelled from their homes anyone would sign on to an agreement that basically states they can return home as long as they do a, b, c…..x, y & z.
In reality different groups of people have been fighting over a few hundred square miles of desert for millennia. Jews feel like the land is theirs because their god is believed to have said so. Arabs on the other hand feel like the land is theirs because they were living there until being expelled in 1948.
Going forward wars will still be fought over that stretch of desert and absolutely nothing is going to stop what has been going on since man walked on 2 legs.
You want me to give you something? OK, iwill give you toddlers. But then ask yourself why their are toddlers near rocket launchers, RPGs and AK-47s? Who is realy endangering them?
Also, you have mistaken some event from 1948. No one "forced Arabs out" of Israel en masse. In fact, they were encouraged to leave by other arab nations to clear the way for the (first modern) destruction of Israel. Woops, that didn't work out so well since they lost. This is the basis of the "nakba" reference you hear Arabs lament. "The Great Tragedy" if you will. Some Arabs were smart and said "I think I will be an Israeli citizen in this new country and live peacefully (we hope)". Many others chose to leave and were displaced of their own accord and have been pissed ever since that they participated in a war that they lost.
There was no expelling of Arabs.
Once again, I will ask why there are no (longer) bustling Jewish enclaves in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, etc...? Why not? Yet there are large Arab comunities in Israel with full Israeli citizenship... How many Jews have sat on Iran's Supreme court, or Syria's legislative council? Zero. Arabs serve on the Israeli Supreme Court and in the Knesset.