Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has won private backing from President Biden to press ahead with a ground invasion of Gaza, according to accounts
In a way, there is always a power differential, but negotiating in good faith between countries involved respecting the sovereignty of the country you are negotiating with. I should have been clearer.
Pressing for advantage is not the same as offering what you know to be unacceptable and refusing to budge. Then continuing to illegally occupy the territory under dispute in contreventiin of international law, in an effort to undermine the ability to enact a border at a future date.
Your questions aren’t simple to answer in a short discussion but I don’t know that answering them would bring us further, either. Palestinians are the people in crisis that are disadvantaged. It’s hard to help others when you are struggling to survive. Israel doesn’t have to help them from a humanitarian point of view, but if they are in conflict, if they don’t seek to resolve it, violence continues on both sides. It either stays the same, escalates or fizzles out. History tells us when a people are persecuted, it does not fizzle out.
When it’s a person, we say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Israel only offers deals it knows are unacceptable to Palestinians. That is not a meeting of equals. Equals negotiate.
I don’t think Palestine is smelling of roses. Hamas committed a terrorist attack that killed hundreds brutally.
Israel have continued to take land in violation of international law. Is that continuing to offer deals?
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In a way, there is always a power differential, but negotiating in good faith between countries involved respecting the sovereignty of the country you are negotiating with. I should have been clearer.
Pressing for advantage is not the same as offering what you know to be unacceptable and refusing to budge. Then continuing to illegally occupy the territory under dispute in contreventiin of international law, in an effort to undermine the ability to enact a border at a future date.
Your questions aren’t simple to answer in a short discussion but I don’t know that answering them would bring us further, either. Palestinians are the people in crisis that are disadvantaged. It’s hard to help others when you are struggling to survive. Israel doesn’t have to help them from a humanitarian point of view, but if they are in conflict, if they don’t seek to resolve it, violence continues on both sides. It either stays the same, escalates or fizzles out. History tells us when a people are persecuted, it does not fizzle out.
When it’s a person, we say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.