Re: What About Israel Murdering The Wrong Guys?
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What peace process can truly and ultimately succeed if religio-supremacist views from amongst the Arabs demand Islamic dominance over Israel ...
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A peace process driven by moderates. The extremists are kept alive by the continued conflict, and will be undermined most by an agreement, so making that a requirement for an agreement only delays peace and reconciliation and the end of the violence.
A couple more things.
1) You speak of the Palestinian extremists who desire only to the complete destruction of the state of Israel as if they reflect the entire Palestinian people, a majority of whom would settle for a fair two-state agreement peacefully.
2) Look at your statement above again. What if I told you that "religio-supremacist views from amongst the [Jews] demand [Jewish] dominance over [Palestine]?" The whole conflict is based on both sides' belief of these statements in the past, although of course before the conflict one sides' case was considerably weaker having not lived in this holy land for centuries. Today, moderates on both sides have let them go, leaving only the peace rejectionists with theses views (Hammas, Greater Israel movement). So care to join me in calling for the undermining the extremists on both sides through an agreement? To do so, you must abandon the current Israeli path which is delaying peace and reconciliation, perhaps indefinitely. The Palestinian extremists only maintain any legitimacy amongst their people if the conflict continues unsolved.
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