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Not dying is one reason. Not being permanently impoverished and second class citizens is another. At some point, those negative things become certainty and they are negotiating something else. A short guy has no reason to accept that he can't play in the NBA, but not accepting it doesn't get him onto the team. The Israeli line goes peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews. That seems clever, but the problem becomes explaining to the Arabs what loving their children means.
If the Palestinians had simply given up they would have been genocided by Israel. They have fought back and kept a decent size of land because of it. If they love their children they should do what the Irish did and get their country back.
I admire the gumption of reversing the usual argument against the one state solution, but I must again remind you that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and only levied the blockade when the Gazans continued to fire rockets at Israel.
It would have been very weird for Israel to withdraw unilaterally if the only thing that was keeping them from genociding the Palestinians was Palestinian resistance.
Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza because armed resistance made the cost of maintaining settlements too high, same with Lebanon. If the Gazans were entirely pacifistic they would have had no reason to leave in the first place.
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No, they would have been ordinary arab citizens of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and/or Lebanon.
Again zionists end up advocating for mass immigration. We do not want a massive wave of refugees to any country.
Who's advocating for anything? I responded to your historical counterfactual with my belief that events would not have been nearly as bloody as you described them.
Your comment is not in good faith, and unworthy of the legacy of this place.
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