Gnads wrote on Sep 13
th, 2024 at 1:20pm:
And the Palestinians have no right to deny Jews the right to exist in their homelands of the ME i.e. Israel.
They want to drive them into the sea.
If there were no illegal occupation, no decades-long dispossession, siege and horrific crimes committed against them, they wouldn't feel that way.
Even so, when the PLO renounced terrorism and openly began supporting the idea of a two-state solution in the late 1980s, Israel encouraged the rise of Hamas as a counterweight. So Israel is preventing peace, not the Palestinians.
"In January 1976, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) offered to negotiate the terms of this "two-state" consensus. With Washington’s support, Israel refused the good-faith Palestinian proposal. Choosing expansion over peace, it has done so ever since.
"... critics dismiss the 1976 peace initiative, arguing that the fratricidal Lebanese civil war rendered Palestinian recognition of Israel unthinkable. Yet the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) discerned that Arafat was “willing and able” to deliver - the 1976 initiative was not an aberration, but began a deluge of Palestinian two-state proposals, in 1977, 1979, 1980 and 1982."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-negotiation-idea-always-f...