re: #606 Spare O’Lake

Noone is asking the Palestinians to take Israel’s word for anything. However they must once and for all be disabused of the notion that they have nothing to lose by maintaining their rejectionist stance, and that is what Israel’s settlement policy is hopefully going to teach them.
The deal is not going to get better for the Palestinians, only worse, and the sooner they realize that the better for all concerned.

Hey man, like I said before. Israel has the power to make peace. The ball is in their court. If they want to keep annexing land, they certainly have the power to do so. The U.S. certainly isn’t going to stop them. But if you think for one second that the Palestinians are going to “learn” anything from Israel taking more and more of the land they feel is theirs, you’re hallucinating.

It’s precisely this paternalistic attitude that I find so shocking. Like the Palestinians are children that Israel needs to “teach” before this problem can be resolved. Each side must take responsibility and compromise if there is ever going to be peace. Right now it looks like Israel will be satisfied with maintaining the status quo, and keeping the Palestinians walled off in some sort of an apartheid quasi-state indefinitely. But if that’s the case, they can expect there to be violence that never ceases.