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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A non violent solution is possible...but first both sides need to acknowledge the other sides perspective/fears/desires.

For Israel, they believe that the palestinians want to slaughter them, that the arabs in general want to drive them to the sea.  And that the world is against Israel.  They believe that the survival of Israel is central to the survival of the Jewish people.  This is realized in referring to things like "Tunnels of Terror."

[b]My understanding is the Palestinians believe that Israel wants to occupy them and treat them as second class citizens. [/b] That they are subhuman.  This is realized in all of the Apartheid talk.

In order to have a peaceful solution, the Israelis need to see how the Palestinians view the conflict, and the Palestinians need to see the fear that is driving the Israeli actions.

Then, they can sit down, and start to talk with reasonable perspectives.  How can Israel demonstrate respect for the Palestinians?  How can the Palestinians show the Israelis that they don't want to kill them?

Until that happens, nothing will change.

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  They are de facto occupied by the water, air, and land blockade.

And Palestinians are killed at 10x the rate of Israelis.  Israelis do far, far more of the killing.  So it's hard for me to see why Israelis are so terrified.  Seems it should be the other way around to me. [/quote]

Look at the history and the rhetoric.  Israel is clearly the strong entity.  But, the country is reacting from fear.  It is a matter of understanding the motivations of the other side.    Israel is a small country.  The jewish people have been the victim of multiple attempted genocides, starting with the Egyptians in the old testament, continuing through the persians, the greeks, the romans, the spanish, and of course the germans.   [/quote]

I agree that Israel is reacting to the actions of the Palestinians, which is truly bizarre to me -- why do they continue to engage on a violent level with an opponent who is so much stronger? Perverse.

So what can they do that is not violent to make the changes they want to make?[/quote]
They did try when they made a unity government pact with Fatah. At which point Netanyahu had a conniption fit, walked out of the peace talks and the rest is on CNN right now. [/quote]

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