Is it a victory though

Submitted by Belmont (Hungary), Nov 10, 2022 at 04:34

If victory is Israel's ability to impose its will on West Bank and Gaza which has no official army and no recognized borders and is entirely controlled by Israel, then, of course, Israel is imposing its will but that is not a victory, a victory would be for Israel to be accepted and not feared. It's been more than 70 years and Palestinians as well as many Arabs are still calling it Palestine. They are weak now but one day they may not be, even if we are able to keep them weak what would it take from our consensus? power is an ugly thing, peace is happiness and safety. we tried the war approach for a very long maybe it is time to try peace, and don't say Palestinian don't want peace if we in Israel live the same way they do we will not be thinking of peace. Through our government's actions, we are filling them with hatred. 70 years and we are jumping from one war to the other, we built walls, checkpoints, protected settlements, imprisoned children, besieged cities and refugee camps, etc. They did not get tired of finding ways to resist, maybe we can listen to what they actually are saying instead of waging wars that we will never actually win.

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