Palestinians are educated when they try to go to school or try to go to work or try to visit relatives who live more than a few blocks from them.
How about when they visit the 20% of the Israeli population that is Arab, and have a better standard of living than they do?
There was a time when the Israelis, as a people, would have favored helping the Palestinians build a viable state.. A state they could have traded with, lived in peace with, and even possibly lived in as citizens..
But the Palestinian, or more appropriately, their leadership(and lack thereof) has been far more intolerant of Jews, as well as any sense of moderation amongst any Palestinian leaders who see that no Palestinian state is truly viable without entre to Israeli markets.
Arafat, and religious militants, have been responsible for this.. egged on my Arab financial support from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc...
Personally, I'm sick of how people of your ilk constantly excuse the behavior of the Palestinian leadership.. I'm sick of you all ignoring the hatred and racism they continue to indoctrinate into the minds and hearts of their young children.
By doing so, it's almost certain that the Palestinian people will never be able to achieve a harmonious and mutually beneficial relationship with Israel.
The fact that all trade routes from Israel to most other Arab nations transit Palestinian controlled territory should be more than sufficient to cause folks to ponder the tremendous opportunities they have missed because of their intolerance.
Something they NEVER had under Jordanian occupation/rule...
So preach your excuses for racism to someone who wants to hear it. I'm a pragmatist, with a BA from the School of Hard Knocks, and a Phd from the University of Whatever Works...
I have no time for willful forgiveness of such institutionalized hatred.
Hawk |
