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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady
That's funny!
Most of us Israelis here recognize that what hasn't worked with terrorists is appeasing them, promising them a state, trusting the papers they sign, etc.
Otherwise, lots of things have worked excellently with terrorism, especially when military action is employed and not in response to events but prior to them.
Once again, Scandium's got it backwards.
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Really? Tell me then, how many countries have tiny Israel's per capita rate of domestic, done on Israeli soil, terrorist attacks? How many other countries bulldoze, per capita, the number of homes that Israel does? How many first world countries have the ~40% unemployment rate that is enjoyed by your segregated and disenfranchised Palestinian population? How many countries detain, without trial and per capita, the number of people that Israel does? How many 21st century countries are building the kind of midieval style walls that Israel is building? And how many 1st world countries practice the kind of pre-Mendalla Apartheid that is practiced in Israel? And how many 1st world countries routinely use their airforce to bomb targets within their own borders?
Yet you think your approach is working? Why then does your country resemble so much more of a police state than any other 1st world country in the World? And before you simply blame the Muslim Palestinians, recall that other countries (such as France, the US, possibly Germany, and many others) have far more Muslims living within their borders yet use none of your methods and have none of your problems. So clearly what have you've been doing for the last 70 years hasn't worked, and the attempts at a paper Palestinian state that has never gone anywhere is a red herring. Though quite possibly if you gave them a real state, one with real sovereignty, then maybe you wouldn't need to build walls.
The history of Europe is one that is far bloodier than that of Israel's, yet you don't see Germany expelling French citizens, or Spain bombing Portugal. Not that the rest of us have entirely clean hands at home or abroad, but your country seems unique in its ability to spend decades fighting the same battle with the same tactics with absolutely no insight into the fact that they've accomplished little beyond exporting your domestiv conflict to the rest of the globe. Of course you don't see this and are the forum cheerleader for blaming all the worlds ills on the mostly powerless and many places all but enslaved Muslims; personally I'm more inclined to lay the blame at the only 1st world country that makes ethnicity/religion a prerequisite for citizenship (among other benefits) and in that regard places itself into the same category as Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, enjoys a foreign aid budget that dwarfs that of any other country and which it has no longer any need for and devotes almost exclusively to weapons that it uses to destroy defenseless neighbours like Lebanon, which is ironically one of the most progressive countries in the region and a natural trading partner and ally if only your government, having only a hammer, didn't see every problem as though it were a nail. But you do. And then you expect the rest of us to clean up your mess and continue to make the annual welfare payments as well (while bailing you out of the UN court everytime you smash something else).
I think we'd see a lot more peace and a lot less terrorism if simply we started treating Israel more like an adult and less like a spoiled teenager.