Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: New Israeli search method at West Bank checkpoint worries Palestinians [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)I just drew a correlation between ending occupation and increased violence. It happened during Oslo's re-deployment, in Gaza and in Lebanon. And then Israel's RE-redeployment back into the west bank saw violence decrease.
I don't know where you are getting these crazily specific extrapolations from. I said violence increases and decreases. You're saying that the "Palestinian leadership that would happily have settled for Begin's proposals for Tibetan-style "autonomy", giving up on self-determination forever" which actually doesn't even have anything to do with terrorism rates.
Yet, nothing remotely like that occurred, did it?
No. What occurred was an inverse correlation between occupation and violence, like I said.
I feel like a meteorologist who noted a 1/16th inch increase in ocean levels this year and my colleague replied, "Impossible! If water levels rose like that then the squid monsters would have already taken over the globe and enslaved us! Did that happen, huh? NO, it didn't!"
That said, the PLO was thoroughly defanged during the occupation's lifespan. And Hamas and Hezbollah greatly grew in strength and size immediately following their occupations' end.