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Addressing your last sentence “that’s the hard part.”I'm also sickened by the BLUNT force used by Israel,makes no sense to scatter more seeds of hate on all these Palestinian children for Israel. Smacks of Netanyahu trying to provoke a endless war to delay his reckoning.I'm not a expert on the Jewish history but it seems to me it was a noble idea to create a state for the Jews whose oppression goes back centuries. That said solving one problem created another (displacement of Palestinians). Can't the Israelis see that they themselves have become the Romans who oppressed them. To throw salt in the wounds w/illegal settlements is ridiculous,Netanyahu played Hamas off the Palestinian Authority specifically to derail any 2 state solution. While I admire much about Israel their far right gov. needs to go and a moderate gov. needs to replace it and negotiate a 2 state solution. The Palestinians also need representation that accepts an Israeli state. Between all the rich Gulf states (who also despise Iran) and the US, pressure has to be exerted on all sides to finally fix this region. They all have to get over the fact that religious zealotry and embracing the past hatreds will only lead to a apocalyptic outcome for all involved.
Comparing to the Republican faction of dominionists, their cockeyed theology not merely talks about the end times, they’re actively trying to speed the arrival of the rapture.
They believe that changing the US into a theocracy and making their most hateful parodies of moral conduct law will bring the end of the physical world faster (which is some mind-blowing arrogance if you ask me.)
With the other two Abrahamic religions playing a major role in the motives of the combatants, and with a belief in end times (and how to advance them) part of both, many would classify your otherwise reasonable idea as heretical or worse.
Even without religion, the players have a hardbitten attitude of “so long as my side wins big” which scuttles ambitions of a peaceful and pluralistic settlement. Look at the amazing durability of grievances in states where it is commonplace to see someone flying the stars&bars.
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