Why Is Peace So Difficult in Palestine?
It seems like every few years some arrogant, big mouth, hot shot politician in America decides that he/she is The One capable of bringing about peace.
Things go fine for a while, but once real progress is happening the extremists in both the Palestine camp and the Israeli extremists figure out some way to torpedo the deal.
With the Palestinians it is difficult to understand why they find poverty and conflict as better than prosperity for their people. They surely understand that until they openly accept Israel's right to exist, Israel is going to fight to the death. The Palestinians are never going to be allowed to move back to Israel, take back their conquered land, and change the voting and demographics to where the Jews probably would no longer be a majority. The Israelis are simply not going to give back all of Jerusalem to the Palestinians. It won't happen. By demanding it the Palestinians are killing the peace negotiations.
Maybe there are super-rich Arabs who donate large amounts of money to the Palestinians as long as the conflict continues. So some of the Palestinian leaders have become addicted to this welfare. Actually having to go to work and try to solve problems sounds very difficult. Better the status quo.
Among the Jews there is a vast amount of money coming in from America in support of the Israeli state. Mostly from individual rich American Jews but also plenty from the taxpayers and the government of America. See above paragraph about the status quo. There is the second dynamic, which is the builders. There is a massive, wealthy industry in Israel building these houses and apartments in the “settlements.” Just like builders in America, the number one goal is to keep building and keep getting richer.
Last there are the lunatic, fanatic right wing Jewish religious types. These people are not rational. Like true believers in all faiths, Christian or Moslem, they operate based upon sacred old text books, ritual, and faith. These freako super-religious types have resulted in millions of dead people over the last 2,000 years.
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