Someone has to be the bigger person and take a step back, and it makes sense that it would be the side that has de facto control of the territory as well as the overwhelming military advantage. Palestine is under existential threat, Israel is very much not.
Hostility to an occupying power is expected and reasonable. People fight back against their captors. Violence will never go away in such a situation, that's not what humans are like. If you or Israel is waiting for the Palestinians to stop fighting before you release them from captivity, you will be waiting forever.
That’s actually my honest opinion as an Israeli who supports the two states solution. As an Israeli I can only affect the Israeli policy, which IMO should be to be the bigger person, as the more powerful and advanced country. That’s why I disagree with Netanyahu, as he uses the cycle of violence to stay in power.
And with that being said, the Palestinians had plenty of opportunities to have their own state which they refused. You can’t put all the blame on Israel.
A common saying by Israel’s right wing is: “They only understand power”, that is that the Palestinians mindset of an armed conflict can only be changed by serving them a crushing blow. I disagree as human nature mostly wants retaliation when that happens. But that saying seems to have some merit as Palestinians prefer to take the heavy beating instead of releasing the hostages and forgoing armed conflict, shown by the still strong support for Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank. And by the fact they keep losing on every conflict with Israel but they don’t change their mind.
So you do understand why people are upset when they're forcefully removed from their homes.
If you were dragged out of your home and forced into a ghetto, how long would it be okay for you to be upset about that for?
A few years, maybe even less. As can be seen by the millions of Jews who immigrated to Israel (or before 1948, the Jewish cities of British mandate Palestine) after surviving the Holocaust. And the Jews who lived in Arab nations and were kicked out of their homes after 1947. They were taken all their property. I don’t see Jews today claiming they are refugees asking for a right of return to Germany. Because we moved on and have a good life. Btw moving on doesn’t mean you forgive them. That’s just being pragmatic. In Israel we didn’t forgive the Nazis or the other nations who kicked us out, and we moved on and even have peace with some of them.
Because the rest of the world would probably actually go after Israel for genocide if they cut off water entirely. Israel is an occupying power, they have a responsibility to those in the territory that they are occupying.
You are correct. Although I’m sure you can understand why giving resources to Gaza after Oct 7th wasn’t a popular opinion in Israel. Right after the attack, people were blinded by the devastation and the hate. Very reminiscent of post 9/11 in the US.
My point is that blaming Israel without giving the Palestinians any blame is wrong. They can and should change their mindset, although Israel is really bad at doing that, whether if on purpose or by incompetence. There’s no denying that if the Palestinians would stop the armed conflict and accept a partition, they’ll get it eventually and have a good life. But they’re still stuck holding 75 year old grudge. Hamas is still firing rockets into civilian population in Israel (the last one was yesterday at 6 PM into one of the villages they attacked on Oct 7th).
