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by meri_dian 3009 days ago
Yeah, many people condemn all of Israel. I guess they should just pack it up an call it a day...

The Jews have tried for decades to make peace. They've received rockets and hatred in response. They're fed up, and rightfully so.
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forvelin 3009 days ago
This will be absurdly political if we go on but please try to have an empathy a bit.

Arabs have been there since centuries, some well planned religious migrations happened in last 100 years and then we have this mess. Why can't we go back to UN plan and call it a day ?

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meri_dian 3009 days ago
I do have empathy. The nations surrounding Israel unfortunately do not.

If they decided to convene a summit tomorrow and say "we accept the existence of Israel" instead of their hateful rhetoric that they want to see Israel wiped off the map, the entire problem would be solved.

The victim blaming here is deplorable. The Arabs refuse to accept a Jewish Homeland. Hence the wars, hence the sustained conflict.

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farseer 3009 days ago
>>I do have empathy. The nations surrounding Israel unfortunately do not.

Some intellectual honesty please? The two nations with the largest land border with Israel I.e Jordan and Egypt both recognize and have diplomatic relations with Israel.

>>The Arabs refuse to accept a Jewish Homeland

The question is a Jewish Homeland under what borders? The problem with Israel is that it was never ever content within it's borders. That was adequately demonstrated 7 years after it's independence when it invaded Egypt in 1956 to annex Sinai and double its territory. If not for Eisenhower putting sense into Ben Gurion.[1] The Arabs are right fully scared to recognize any entity that has no intention to define its final borders and keeps annexing land outside the UN plan. The Israeli claim of being "provoked" into capturing land also doesn't hold any water as the Sinai campaign of 1956 shows.

[1]https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-israel-gave...

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