Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: WATCH: IDF Soldier Screams At Israeli Activists: 'You Are Worse Than The Arabs' [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)Raze entire neighbourhoods in retaliation for a scorched stoop?
Lash back with precision munitions against glorified bottle rockets?
Why must Israel return every "insult" done it, ten, twenty, even a hundredfold and more?
Allowing that to be true, the IDF must also be absolutely aware that any militants will be long gone before any response of theirs can possibly arrive and yet knowing that they will hit the guilty only by the sheerest of mischances, AND will almost certainly maim and kill the innocent in job lots, your brave soldiers choose to respond to ineffective indiscriminate fire with murderously effective indiscriminate fire.
What working compromise? Israel gets to set all the terms, Palestine can accept them or put up with continuing occupation? That's what I saw in your Clinton Parameters, and in your Annapolis Conference.
AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I SEE IN YOUR FINAL PARAGRAPH. That calm expectation that first Palestine must make all the concessions demanded by Israel, and then and only then will Israel consider what it might offer in return.