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In response to
"Yes Jack, you're absolutely right, I am biased in favor of the nation whose neighbors have vowed to destroy it from its inception."
by
Stephen
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While Israel is not without fault in perpetuating the conflict, the bulk of the blame does not fall to it.
Posted by
TWuG
Oct 15 '10, 11:06
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European anti-Semitism drove the creation of the Israeli state in the Middle East.
The UN made accommodations to deal with displaced Palestinians. Israel's neighbors reneged on their agreements to accommodate them.
Egypt and Syria and Jordan have all at one time or another directly threatened Israel and lost the ensuing battles.
Israel, generally speaking, does not attack its neighbors randomly or without provocation despite almost constant random provocative acts from within the borders of its neighbors.
They didn't "start it" so much as got plopped down in a hostile neighborhood and did their best not to get slaughtered.
Given all of that, they have done a damn fine job of perpetuating the conflict by overreacting to minor events, continuing to build in contested lands, and building the wall.
But none of that changes the fact that the Palestinians are not bargaining in good faith. They have no real interest in seeing the conflict end.
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