Giving peace a chance

[Muddleoftheroad]

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[THUNDER HANDS]

1. I usually don't comment on the I/P issues, but.....

I doubt there will ever be peace. Unfortunately. :(

This is why I feel that way...

1. There will have to be a Palestinian civil war first. The extremists will, eventually, butt heads with the moderate Palestinian foces until some order is reached.

Either the Palestinians who want peace will succeed, or the one's who only seek the destruction of Israel.

2. The Palestinian extremists, the organizations responsible for the terror attacks, aren't dumb. They know that they weaken the Palestinian cause. But a majority of the population tolerates them. Why? Because they do more humanitarian work for the Palestinian people than the PA does. They provide food, clothing and necessities to the (mostly) poor Palestinians who are living in what essentially ammounts to a shanty town.

It's hard to round up and get rid of the extremists, when they're the one's who are acting as a main source of provisions for the people. These extremists aren't dumb, they know to hold out a carrot and have their people jump for it every time.

3. Israel extremists will never be satisfied with a Palestinian state and I can't see how it could ever function properly. How will Palestine ever be able to have a standing army comperable to Israel's? Israel will never allow it. A state means that you have a functioning government and a military to defend the government.

4. Israel, just by being what it is, is facing a losing population battle and it knows it. In 30 years there will be 10x the number of Palestinians to Israelis and Israel won't have enough bullets to shoot them all.

5. The U.S. can not be an impartial arbitor. It HAS to side with Israel nearly all of the time for many obvious reasons. One is the Israeli lobby, which donates generously to many U.S. representatives. And two is the Israeli government, which is a major purchaser of our arms.

There will never be peace, as far as I can tell. This is a hopeless situation that will only be resolved by either a Palestinian civil war or the total annihilation of Palestine by Israel and a complete closing and annexation of every Palestinian city and town.

And, I think I have to add, I'm Jewish, but I don't support what Israel is currently doing.