Hamas and the Israeli billionaires and the American arms companies need this war, in the same way rich people need poor people to exist. That is a large part of why this keeps happening.
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Originally Posted by Bill Haywood
Overnight? You think all the Israelis living in Palestinian homes seized in 1948 would walk away? The diaspora of expelled Palestinians would be let back home? No way. The main points of contention would endure.
The Neocons are not religious, yet they organized the preposterous invasion of Iraq. Henry Kissinger isn't religious to speak of, yet he's a war criminal. The 1979 war between China and Vietnam had no religious angle. The crimes of Stalin were not religiously motivated.
Israel/Palestine is first a struggle over land, which some people experience in religious terms. Religion has become important in the Palestine war, but it didn't start out that way.
Neocons might not be religious themselves, but they frequently make them their allies. A lot of neocons are religious too, even if they're not making it their platform. Look at Jordan Peterson and the symbiotic relationship he has with Ben Shapiro. William F Buckley has been described as the original neocon, and while religion wasn't the thing he put front and centre in all his words, it is there in the background, sometimes in the foreground as he moralised. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find prominent neocons that are atheist or agnostic, or at least ones that wear their atheism / agnosticism as one of their main things.
And yes, overnight, if you could deradicalise everyone in the middle east, the situation would be less... radical. How could it not?