At this point, I see no viable long-term scenario but to give them Statehood. Wall them in and let them destroy themselves, Israel can wave its hands of the problem and let the Islamic States take some blame for once.
Do you seriously think that anyone other than Israel and the United States will be blamed?
Do you seriously think that anyone other than Israel and the United States will be blamed?
Well, we’ll recieve blame no matter what for anything. But if the Palestinians get a state and they blow it, well, it’ll be “less” our fault than if they’re in a perpetual non-state status.
I think there’s also the problem of reinforcing terror. While giving them their own state would expose them as the savages that most of them are, it’s also rewarding terrorism, and other terrorist nations will see that. The Gaza withdrawal was bad enough, because terrorists have seen that their tactic pays. Giving them their own state would only amplify the reinforcement.
I think there’s also the problem of reinforcing terror.
Definitely a problem. But I think, at this point, disengagement isn’t exactly giving into terror. Walling off the territories, notgiving them Jeruselum, not peacefully negotiating fair treatment isn’t really capitulating, it’s more like shunning the whole process by which the terrorist tactics gained legitimacy in the first place.
Of course, that might just be fatigue (over the whole situation) talking.