The Palestinian Nakba: The Resolve of Memory

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6. Do you disagree WRT Jews being defeated in 1948; whether there would be a Palestinian state now?

Or a Palestinian people yearning for a state 60 years later?

It's not about nationality, now is it?

The conflict has from the very start been primarily between Israel and the Arab world, not Israel vs. the Palestinians. It was and still is the Arab/Israeli conflict. The only reason it's portrayed as an I/P conflict is to make the Palestinians out to be David vs. the Israeli Goliath, when in fact it's the Arab world Goliath vs. the Israeli David. See, the only reason the PLO and Hamas still think they will win in the end by eventually destroying Israel is b/c they know fully well they're backed by the rest of the Arab world in their hatred of Israel.

Check out a map of the mideast and see how tiny Israel stacks up against the rest of the Arab world. The PLO and Hamas know the maps quite well and believe very much that eventually they (and the rest of the Arab world) will win their war vs. the Jews. The map shows just how irresistible it is for Israel's neighbors to attack Israel.