RandyBrian wrote:
The Palestinians are in a terrible position. I truly do feel for them.
But they put themselves there, and have screwed Israel and the world with every single offer and chance to find peace. over the past 50 years.
I've actually studied those offers... They were always rhetorical, every last one them. Imagine I took your house and told you and your family to GTFO. Then when a mediator comes over, I offer you the gazebo in the back yard. Would you be insulted? Would you say no? Let's say you do... Then I look at the mediator and shrug my shoulders and say see? Every time I offer him something, he refuses.
It's intentional... None of those offers were ever designed to actually make peace. They were designed to put the blame on the Palestinians for not agreeing.
RandyBrian wrote:
They have made it clear they will not stop until Israel and all Jews are destroyed.
Some of them have. I'm watching people right here suggesting we do the same to them. People get angry and say things.
RandyBrian wrote:
While I have a lot of sympathy for them, my choice is to support the people that has been persecuted for 5000 years,
That's utterly meaningless to me. WTF cares about what happened 5,000 years ago?
RandyBrian wrote:
and has struggled to do as little damage as possible to the Palestinians consistent with keeping there own people as safe as possible since 1948.
Except for when they bulldoze Palestinian homes to make room for Jewish settlements. Amazing how you folks just keep forgetting that.
RandyBrian wrote:
Even in that, they have paid a terrible price, over the years, with not putting an end to the willing butchers in Gaza.
That's their own fault. If you shove 2.5 million people into a 25 mile strip and control everything going in and out, including water and power and the people themselves, your going to create some resentment.