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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Well, that's the whole problem right there. Both sides behave like little children, they're each holding a rock (one of the rocks is conventional and the other is a nuclear rock, but they're still basically just rocks) and neither will put theirs down until the other does. This is foreign policy at its most infantile. Compared to this, the MAD Doctrine is downright sophisticated.
If there's going to be peace, SOMEBODY has to make the first move. With a long stick made of rolled up US Dollars poking them in the back, it MIGHT be the Israelis who do it. MIGHT.
If they did, there's a CHANCE (CHANCE!) that the various Palestinian factions might put their rocks down too. And if they did, the whole rest of the Middle East might (MIGHT!) put their rocks down. A sovereign Palestine is the lynch pin to the whole thing.
It's a long shot. Peace IS a long shot, always. I think it's worth it, and I'd LOVE to see it happen.
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There have been attempts and shots, over the last few years. You can poke as many holes in them as you want, but the talks always stop when a few dozen rockets went in to residential areas. At which point Israel is forced to defend itself, because the Palestinian security force either a) is involved (which has happened). or b) does not want to tryt o stop it since it would cause revolution in the streets (which is why Hamas now controls half of the region). It is very easy for everyone to say stop defending yourself, when rockets are not flying in to your country. When you do not have suicide bombers, who threaten daily. And these attacks do not make the news at all. I honestly feel peace is a two way street, but the problem is that there is no one on the Palestinian side that can unilaterally speak for all the parties there, and have them commit to peace. And because of that every time peace talks and a calm occurs Hamas, or Islamic Jihad or some other small terrorist organization starts violence, and no one can or is willing to stop it, so Israel has to defend itself.