A lot of answers already. I don’t want to be too redundant.
I don’t think Palestinians will ever agree to a two state solution. The deal at Camp David with Clinton was probably the best deal the Palestinians could have hoped for and they refused it. Here is a link to the parameters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clinton_Parameters#:~:text=The%20Clinton%20Parameters%20proposed%20a,mainly%20in%20major%20settlement%20blocs.
Hamas is basically in control in Gaza and Hamas doesn’t accept any type of Jewish state and would love to see the Jews all dead.
The West Bank is a different story. You can’t put all Palestinians or even the different regions in one basket.
In South Africa and the US the oppressed group wanted equality in their country. Regarding the Palestinians you have a faction who outright wants to destroy Israel and have their own country. Even some Palestinians who live in Israel don’t want to take Israeli citizenship.
Israel does take actions that treat Palestinians like a subclass or not equally, but think how difficult it is to trust the Palestinians. Do you think it would make sense to have them in the Israeli Army. There are Arabs in the military, there were some Arab groups who swore allegiance to Israel when the UN decision was made.
The video seemed to start with right before the UN decision. The history goes much much farther back. The Jews were on those lands for thousands of years. Arabs have been there a long time too.
In the 1930’s my husband’s paternal grandparents and many other Jewish people left what is now Israel because of rising antisemitism. If people weren’t always trying to oppress, enslave, and kill the Jews, there would have been many more still on those lands in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s.
There are 7 million Jews in Israel and about 350 million Arabs in the Middle East. Israel just wants a little piece of land. It’s so easy to say there were “only X amount of Jews.” We are always a small number. Meanwhile, the numbers I have seen for Jews in the area at time of the decision are different than the video that was linked above, I have seen much larger numbers. Here is one link, but I would want to look at several sources. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-and-non-jewish-population-of-israel-palestine-1517-present
It’s been a few generations since the UN decision. The one hope might be younger Palestinians might be more willing to compromise? Or, see the value in having a democracy and being more progressive.
An Israeli friend said to me yesterday hopefully this attack at least will finally get rid of Netanyahu. I was afraid it might do the opposite. I hope she is correct and I am wrong.
Hamas was vicious, savage, there aren’t enough words to describe the brutality. If Palestinians don’t stand up and say they condemn their tactics they are complicit.
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