Originally Posted By: olivant
Change will occur when Palestinians rid themselves of Hezbollah, El Fatah, the Al Aqsa Martyrs, and Hamas (among others), and embrace democracy. Had Egypt not joined Syria in the six day war in '67 and Jordan fulfilled its armistice agreement following the 1948 arab-israeli war, Palestinians would have a state of their own.


Hezbollah is not Palestinian.
And non-violent Palestinians are shot, arrested and beaten just as violent Palestinians are. Fatah has already recognized Israel's right to exist. What they have refused to do is to recognize Israel as "a Jewish state".

There is no chance under current settlement activity for Palestinians to have a state of their own as Israeli land grabs have increased exponentially since 1993 Oslo accords.
Hamas was elected. The Israelis shouldn't be able to elect their leaders and the Palestinian leaders. In war/conflict you can only make peace with enemies.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.