Instead, pursuing an international and local boycott of Israeli goods & services, unionizing workers pushing for better compensation, and other such measures would go a lot further towards a just compromise. And greater support of outsiders could be achieved, as well. Not to mention, a whole buncha lives could be spared.
To adopt such a strategy, they would require a functioning economy. First of all, their land is too small to every develop an independent economy, second, the Arafat kleptocracy has built nothing, unless you count the car-theft rings and his cronies' construction companies who are busy building the Jewish settlements.
To get to square one, however, the Palestinians need to
surrender the inner conviction to hate and destroy Jews.
If they had ever been persuaded by the arguments of prosperity and compromise instead of honor, face, and shame, the Palestinians would of course be much better off. But much less like Arabs. |
