There is no such thing as "Palestinian people."
That is not the reality on the ground! Denying it is not going to solve anything. The reality is that there are a people called Palestine. Denying that is like denying that there is a people called Israelis!
We both know that. They are the descendants of illegal immigrants from the 1920s and 1930s that illegally settled on the British Mandate of Jewish Palestine land. They were given their own country called Trans-Jordan. And what should we do about the millions of illegal immigrants in the US? Just let them stay there because "they're there?"
No many ore decendants migrants from the Middle East during the White Papers Days, but there are many that (just as there were many Jews) that have history dating back to the crusades era!
How much money in taxes do the people that live in Gaza and the West Bank pay the Israeli government?
The West Bank pays taxes to Israel! Not sure about Gaza at this time, but I know they still use the Shekel!
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And yet Israel is supposed to share its food, water and electricity with the very people who set out to bomb innocent Israeli civilians?
The Gazanians pay for the food, water and electric that the Gazanians use. The aid comes from international support, which is primarily funded by the US!
They're there now, but that doesn't mean they have to be there tomorrow.
Reality is they are there and YES they will be their tomorrow. There are only 2 ways the Palestinian-Israeli situation plays out. (1) 2 state solution (I prefer) or (2) the one state solution (a) keeping the Democracy and the Palestinians Arab numbers overrun the Jewish and all of Israel becomes a Muslim State or (b) Israel doesn't allow the Palestinians, who are not Israelis, to vote and in effect create an aparthied system. The people who say that Palestinians can be removed from the West Bank or Gaza are not living in reality!
Do poor people in America turn to terrorism? No. Why not?
Poor people in America disproportionately turn to crime, violence and gang life! When you have less to lose the more willing you are to scarifice it all for a cause! Why is the UAE (I know about the denial of the Jewish Tennis players) less radical than piss poor Somolia, Pakistan, Afghanistan or Yemen? Same thing!
Because our leaders don't go to the poor and brainwash them into believing that Canada or Mexico is responsible for their poverty. If we cut off the head, i.e. Hamas, will we kill the serpent?
Maybe, so but its easier for a Hamas to recruit a Palestinian with no job, no food and no home, than a Palestinian with a job, money, food and a home! And if you notice the poor doesn't blame Mexico, otherwise they would be more against illegal immigration. Rather they always blame the Republicans!
We have one of two choices: Let Israel wipe out Hamas without restraint or let Fatah take over Gaza. Either way, Hamas cannot be trusted and must be eliminated.
Both are easier said than done. Also Fatah is a paper dragon, they could eliminate the girl scouts any more than they could take out Hamas!
Best Israel can do it push for a unified Fatah/Hamas government and then start to negotiate with whoever is in charge, WHOEVER IS CHARGE!