Who can say for sure? I think there's some likelihood of that.

For the non-clickers here:

There's no one on Earth that purely rational. Everyone applies a payoff matrix but different people weigh different things.


https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/o...ed-values.html

Israel warns of prospect of ‘all-out war’ after Hezbollah publishes video of military, civilian sites


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...dd6800de&ei=15

So something which I have brought up before which I have never seen addressed adequately by anyone advocating for Palestinian statehood is the geographic military significance of the West Bank.

Israel has been surrounded and constantly attacked from every direction for decades; and has relied mainly on defensive measures to keep their populace safe. This has worked in part because of the geographic distance of the belligerent forces from Israel's main population centers.

The West Bank is on high ground directly above these population centers. Given Palestinians and their supporters have shown zero inclination or ability to control militants from threatening and attacking Israel; why in the world would Israel give up such militarily significant land?

It is one thing if the Palestinians first demonstrated a willingness and an ability to control violence against Israel; but they have shown absolutely no inclination for either over decades.

There is absolutely no indication an independent Palestinian state controlling the West Bank would not be immediately compromised by foreign funded militants promising to destroy Israel; as has happened in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Gaza. I

In fact these groups are already operating in the West Bank, they just cant set up shop and bring in heavy weapons as they have in Gaza due to Israel's occupation.

I could be wrong, but if Hezbollah actually was interested in attacking Israel, I dont see any reason it would be preemptively broadcasting its capabilities like this. You didn't see Hamas bragging about how compromised the southern border was before 10/7. Quite the opposite, Hamas pretended they were interested in peace and participated in agreements allowing Palestinians in to work, to catch Israel off guard.

Seems Hezbollah wants a detente, but is broadcasting its capabilities in an attempt to obtain leverage in the negotiations. Maybe Israel is doing the same thing by broadcasting its willingness to go into open war.

It’s kabuki theater with real weapons. Neither wants war but either could miss a step and accidentally start one.

But not starving children in other countries that we're not feeding?

Try to read the entire post next time, and then don't quote back a small part of it out of context.

Weren't we just discussing how western aid to palestine has helped to prevent the stabilization of the area?
It certainly doesn't seem very stable to me.

This belongs in the British politics thread.

My reading comprehension is much better than yours. The fact remains that I simply can't teach you how to care about starving children. That should have been your parents' job.

You have shown many times that you don't understand concepts discussed by other posters here on both sides of brute spectrum.

I care about the starving children who are being neglected in other countries; why don't you?

Quit it, you two.

You don’t care about starving Palestinians do you?

How has it prevented stabilization?

No it's not very stable, which is why these measures are extremely important.

I see absolutely no reason to expect stabilization in Palestine no matter how the current war resolves. Every Arab state that aligns with Iran is completely dysfunctional and unstable; and this is not a bug, it is a feature.

Despite the fact the US is pretty much the only reason Palestinians aren't all starving to death, Palestinian society hates US with a passion due to US support of Israel; and is very sympathetic towards Iran for being an Islamic nation that is standing up to the US and Israeli devils. This alone gives me pretty much no hope a Palestinian state would function any better than failed states like Lebanon, Yemen or Syria.

Why is Israel letting settlers run wild in the West Bank and risk a conflagration if they were so worried about it?

The occupied West Bank Palestinians dont currently have the military hardware to do much. Israel has too tight a grip.

But a truly independent Palestinian state where the state itself or militias can (and certainly would) build an arsenal of drones and heavy weapons from Iran and Qatar is a complete non starter.

To maker sure the West Bank is never the sight for a Palestinian state. There are a half million nutty heavily armed settlers and growing. They aren't going anywhere.