Israel is Goliath here.
I know they like to pretend they're David, but they're not. And if you are the stronger power and you in fact occupy territories, that comes with responsibility.
People go soft on Hamas (wrongfully I may add), because Hamas were born out of resistance. And people identify with resistance to a foreign power.
What bothers me too is that Hamas and Palestine are equated. If Israel puts forward decent offers and presents them to Hamas, it will take power away from Hamas if they decline. What doesn't take power away is terrorizing millions of citizens, who will now breed new Hamas members.
But what really gets me is that Israel knows all of this. Imo they are intentionally keeping both Hamas and the conflict alive, because, in all honesty, they believe they have more to gain from the conflict than peace. The Israeli leaders probably love Hamas at this point.
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It's a valid argument that I can agree with but the last part.
First you are right but I don't think it's neccesserily pretending with an intent as you my conclude, some of it maybe. israelis are captives of this mentality, in part due to being a persecuted minority for over a millenia and for still viewing the conflict in it's broader sense as an arab-israeli one. It is what it is unfortunately and we do "use" it, I just think we really do have it, for an outsider looking in it may seem crazy I understand.
I also completely understand people supporting the underdog, would have probably done the same In their shoes. There is a reason Robin Hood is such a classic tale, I think most good people are brought up to want to help the weak and unfortunate, it a buetifully human thing.
On the last part, people tend to forget, not consider or purposely ignore that Israel is like any other democratic country were politicians will do anything to stay in power, goverments come and go, public opinion and support ebb and flow and policies and decisions are not set in stone. Also Israelis are not special, the common idiot is still the common idiot who still gets to vote.
I agree this government gains more from the conflict, bibi can't lead any other type of government and will lose his remaining base even with any vague 2 state solution suggestion. But the peace process died not because of him, it died due to the bad Palestinian decisions between 95' to 08' imo, we can disagree who at fault but my point is that bibi used that to get elected and kept using that to get re-elected.
Please don't equate what this and other governments under Bibi want and what Israel as a country wants. This is the dynamic nature of democratic countries. The fact that we do badly now is not neccesserily a testament that we will always when the other side is also willing. The stage for restarting the peace process is not there this moment, or the last 10 years sadly. hopefully after this Bibi will be gone and he will, that day will come again.
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