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Originally Posted by willravel
Said thriving would be fully dependent on the axiom that Israel would simply stop fighting if the Palestinian leadership stopped antagonizing Israel. This is a false axiom. Maybe I should ask you this: how is Israel stopping terrorism by annexing land and bulldozing Palestinian homes? The obvious answer is they're not. No, I'd say that based on the actions of the Israeli state that their goal is not peace with the Palestinians but rather to simply remove them completely from Israel AND their lands. Based on that, if the Palestinians stopped fighting, they'd simply make it easier for the Israelis to remove them.
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Israel gave complete withdrawal in 2005 at which point there was only 179 rocket attacks that year. They tried to make peace, but once they withdrew, the attacks went up to 946 rocket attacks in 2006 and 896 in 2007. And so far over 400 in 2008. Israel has given back land and offered to come to the table to make peace, but you need a partner to talk with. The bulldozing of houses occur in 2 different cases: First is if the person is a suicide bomber, they then bulldoze the house. Second is they have bulldozed strips of area where the rockets are being fired from. They do not keep this land after they just remove anything that is being used as cover for them to fire rockets from.
If they never put down their gun / rocket long enough to talk, they will never have peace. Since you can not have peace with terror.