All snarky hyperbole and sarcasm aside, you might want to go back and look at the never-ending conflict that has plagued that part of the world, from the beginning until today. Both Jews and Arabs have legitimate claims to that land, as they have had settlements on those territories for hundreds of years (or millenia, if you are willing …
All snarky hyperbole and sarcasm aside, you might want to go back and look at the never-ending conflict that has plagued that part of the world, from the beginning until today. Both Jews and Arabs have legitimate claims to that land, as they have had settlements on those territories for hundreds of years (or millenia, if you are willing to go as far as the Kingdom of Israel). They had periods of peaceful coexistence, but also countless pogroms and massacres going as far back as 470 BCE. Nothing in recent or less recent history can lead us to believe the two cousins would ever live peacefully in the same nation-state. So I give credence to the worldwide belief that two states in that area would be the best option to stop the carnage. Alas, none of the Arab states in the region is willing to allow Jews to live among them, so that's how you get Palestine as a "cause célèbre", poor Palestinians used as cannon fodder by nationalists and fundamentalists from both sides. The fact that you don't see how a Hamas victory would not mean the end of the war, but just the beginning of another pogrom, is astonishing.
Nobody has a legitimate claim to land that changed hands dozens of times in the past. The Palestinians lived in Palestine for centuries before the Nakba.
Read about Israeli laws about race, interreligious marriage, and attitudes toward non-Jews. It's utterly appalling.
All snarky hyperbole and sarcasm aside, you might want to go back and look at the never-ending conflict that has plagued that part of the world, from the beginning until today. Both Jews and Arabs have legitimate claims to that land, as they have had settlements on those territories for hundreds of years (or millenia, if you are willing to go as far as the Kingdom of Israel). They had periods of peaceful coexistence, but also countless pogroms and massacres going as far back as 470 BCE. Nothing in recent or less recent history can lead us to believe the two cousins would ever live peacefully in the same nation-state. So I give credence to the worldwide belief that two states in that area would be the best option to stop the carnage. Alas, none of the Arab states in the region is willing to allow Jews to live among them, so that's how you get Palestine as a "cause célèbre", poor Palestinians used as cannon fodder by nationalists and fundamentalists from both sides. The fact that you don't see how a Hamas victory would not mean the end of the war, but just the beginning of another pogrom, is astonishing.
Nobody has a legitimate claim to land that changed hands dozens of times in the past. The Palestinians lived in Palestine for centuries before the Nakba.
Read about Israeli laws about race, interreligious marriage, and attitudes toward non-Jews. It's utterly appalling.