Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Fine. What is keeping Palestine from doing the same? Why do they need more than Israel, Germany or Japan to build their democracy? You have always said that ending the occupation would bring peace, right? But in Gaza it brought violence. So if ending the occupation and making concessions and breaking down all the settlements will have only a negative effect on Israel, why do it?
You're asking Israel to risk a lot considering that Palestine has yet to show that they are capable of maintaining a peaceful democratic state. Why not let them build it and get it up and running before the occupation is ended? Do you think that they are that inferior to all those other states that managed to do so much more with so much less?
Palestinians should be building a democracy for themselves regardless of whatever Israel does. It's for them after all. Why do they need Israel to bribe them to avert total failure like you insist?