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Originally Posted by Dunyain
The Palestinians have been fighting the same war for 80 years and are the ones refusing to concede anything or make any. move towards peace. Their goal is and always has been the complete destruction fo Jewish Israel.
This again is obviously not true, since the PLO did sign up to the Oslo Accords, recognising Israel. It's the Israelis who don't want anything to progress, in case they have to evacuate the West Bank settlements full of mainly American zealots, so they throw in deal-killers like retention of East Jerusalem, which they know the Palestinian Arabs can't accept because Jerusalem is their capital and their principal holy site, as it is for Jews.
It is true, of course, that Hamas, at the urging of its Iranian paymasters, is supposedly dedicated to the destruction of Israel, but that is posturing vainglory and Hamas has no such capability. Plus, until recently, Hamas used to do deals with the Israelis over water and power and work permits all the time.