Of course it must come from within, no one can tell people get out there en masse, now.

Your OP highlights this, I feel this may be the only way out:

Only one thing will raise the elephant from its current pose: a nonviolent campaign of civil disobedience, a creative and determined insurrection aimed at one goal – attaining equal rights. It seems as if there has been a recent awakening among Palestinians in this direction.


K&R

that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" works pretty well too.

I watched "Django Unchained" last night with my wife. What a hoot. We seem to finally be allowing our own unmentionable history into the public view. Really annoys the "slaves were happy and well-cared for" people.

That's a story liberal Zionists told themselves so often they wound up believing it.

The constant settlement expansion tells the story --Israel doesn't want peace with the Palestinians. It wants absolute power over them. Power, force, violence, the imposition of their will-that is the solution to all problems. Very Nietzschean.

So events like the evacuation of all settlers and soldiers from Sinai in exchange for peace was a mirage?

The same happening from Gaza never occurred?

The myriad offers granting Palestinians sovereignty over most of the WB, most of EJ, and all of Gaza?

The treaty granting them their democratic democracy? How does that fit in with maintaining "absolute power?"

Judea and Samaria they call it. They insist on owning 100% of the WB's borders, control over its air space, etc.

Power, control, dominion.

The West Bank and the Palestinians aren't the same thing. You said they never intended on using these area as bargaining chips yet i demonstrated several examples of times they did. Israel doesn't even control all the borders of Gaza so what you're saying is just patently untrue. There are multiple examples of Israel handing control over to the Palestinians themselves which you simply ignore. Focusing on things like airspace while ignoring the formation of a palestinian government shows the hollowness of your argument that the Israelis demand "absolute control." They've already given up absolute control. You just refuse to admit it.

Please tell us in particular how their behavior was warlike during the crusades, in Tsarist Russia, and under Nazi Germany.

Also, tell us how "Israelites having a 3000 year old history" is not a weaselish way of Jew-baiting.

Israel's behavior towards Palestianians is truly disgusting.

Israel has existed since 1948, and the Occupation since 1967. Anyone who refers to the I/P situation in terms of 3000 years, has an ugly agenda.

Who?

How about saying instead that HUMANS have a history of thousands of years regarding their views on peace, and much of it isn't a good one.