Because it would be really difficult to say if Israel and the PA are bargaining in good faith and if the end of the peace process would result in a secure state for Israel and a sovereign and viable country for the Palestinians. Intractable problems are intractable.
It's far more fun to create a post calling it Apartheid, see some folks take the bait and complain about the word Apartheid being used, then have other folks complain that everyone is focusing on the word Apartheid and ignoring the humanitarian problems. This is the internet after all. Seems that the UN is being kinda smart by not calling it Apartheid and avoiding the monkey shit fight that always follows.
Israel doesn't face any existential threats. They face political threats. Just like America. We haven't face an existential threat in ages, just political threats. And the funny thing about political threats? They engender the mose vicious sort of thinking, because you're dealing with power, and privilege and pride. People who are actually on the fence of existence are the most reasonable people in the world, because they're about to die and they need to figure some shit out fast.
So anyway, I hope things get worse for Israel so they can start being reasonable and less political.
Why is it almost exclusively conservatives who happen to argue in favor of Israel under one pretense or the other? Is there something in the FOX CoolAid or something?
And then when one of those guys gets so desperate as to blow himself up in the middle of a marketplace, we suddenly wonder what happened and where did all that hatred come from.
Because, you know, they just hate "our way of life". Or something.
I think the main difference between South Africa and Israel is in South Africa there was some significant interest in ending it. In Israel, I don't think either the Israelis nor the Palestinians want anything at all to do with each other. To me, the division is not the issue so much as can the Palestinians be persuaded to evict the violent, extremist elements from their midst and can the Israelis be persuaded to let the Palestinians have a decent freaking standard of living for once.
Maybe good fences do make good neighbors sometimes. Such as when both neighbors pretty much hate each other.
The Israelis have no interest in Palestinians with a good standard of living or genuine independence. Their economy, like that of Apartheid South Africa, needs a ready supply of cheap, discriminated-upon labor to function.
To use an old worn out, overused, trite comment; citation needed.
Seriously, I've missed THAT "attack" by the anti-Zionists; and while I admit I am not as well versed in over all world politics as I could be, I do try to keep up with the Israeli/Palestinian problem. Full disclosure (which you already know) I lean toward the Israeli point of view. OTOH I do have several Palestinian friends, so if not open I try to keep my mind a bit ajar ;-)
An entire nation has been kept increasingly imprisoned inside its own territory. And all of this is happening in front of the eyes of the whole world. But it is allowed to continue.
And the solution could be very simple. It is just that there is a deficit of political will to reach a real solution. On both sides.
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It's far more fun to create a post calling it Apartheid, see some folks take the bait and complain about the word Apartheid being used, then have other folks complain that everyone is focusing on the word Apartheid and ignoring the humanitarian problems. This is the internet after all. Seems that the UN is being kinda smart by not calling it Apartheid and avoiding the monkey shit fight that always follows.
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So anyway, I hope things get worse for Israel so they can start being reasonable and less political.
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Because, you know, they just hate "our way of life". Or something.
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Maybe good fences do make good neighbors sometimes. Such as when both neighbors pretty much hate each other.
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Seriously, I've missed THAT "attack" by the anti-Zionists; and while I admit I am not as well versed in over all world politics as I could be, I do try to keep up with the Israeli/Palestinian problem. Full disclosure (which you already know) I lean toward the Israeli point of view. OTOH I do have several Palestinian friends, so if not open I try to keep my mind a bit ajar ;-)
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And the solution could be very simple. It is just that there is a deficit of political will to reach a real solution. On both sides.
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