re: #13 researchok

Immediately following thew war, Israel offered all the land back in exchange for peace.

The offer was refused.

To this day, the three predicates to peace in the region as agreed to by the UN, NATO, Quartet, et al, are as follows;

Cessation of acts of terror.
Diplomatic recognition of Israel.
Secure borders.

Which of these things are too onerous a burden for the Palestinians or Arab world?

The Palestinians were cursed with a leader like Arafat who was not able to transition from a guerilla fighter to a statesman.

It can also be a case of the Arabs or Muslim side looking at history and saying, this happened before, Europeans made a state in the holy land and it lasted about a hundred years till the Muslims got a Saladin that defeated the Crusaders. So the Arabs maybe thinking; “why negotiate with Israel when we will win in due time due to attrition?”