The found a way to live in peace. What on earth is wrong with that? This notion of a dichotomy of winning and losing is a very, very big part of the problem. Your citizens dying ISN'T winning. Children growing up without fathers or watching children dying ISN'T winning. It never has been.
No, they have a very good chance of working out a solution if they stop thinking in terms of only getting their way.
Source?
Straw man. No one I know of thinks it's so simple. But this is a skeptics forum and we do expect a level of debate greater than high school students. Typically we expect demonstrating ones claim and not relying on fallacy.
No. I don't accept that. It's not as if they were fighting off mongol hordes. You are taking a complex issue and trying to simplify it all the while ignoring that people forever dying for some silly religious sociopolitical goal is absurd.
A rhetorical waste of time. Living in peace with your fellow human beings ISN'T a bad thing. It's actually a very good thing. Just because you don't say it's a bad thing doesn't change the fact that you continually minimize the importance of it. If we were talking about invading armies and not finding a way to live without people dying you would have a point. We aren't and you don't.
As Virus said in #31 (OMG! I'm citing Virus. Shoot me.
) they've been subject to extremely slanted news for a long time. I'm not surprised at the result. Consider the USA where at one time 53% of Republicans thought Obama was not born in the USA. And we live in a nation where there are numerous different news sources. So given the pervasive propaganda they've been subject to, the decades-long violence, and the horrible conditions in Gaza I'm not the least bit surprised at the 84%. Thus, I don't find this to be persuasive evidence that Palestinians don't want to live in peace.
You monitor Palestinian TV from Australia every day. I am impressed with your diligence.
I'm sorry but I categorically reject your presumption that you are a realist. History has shown that hostility ebbs and flows and has never been constant over the long term. That's what is real. The question becomes one of when and not if. And it most certainly does not necessitate that one side must absolutely and unconditionally lose.
BS