Reply #107: Had the Israelis ACCEPTED FROM THE START

[Ken Burch]

That the PLO were "The legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people" and not spent decades trying to replace them with leadership that wouldn't ask for a Palestinian state(despite the fact that the Israeli government always knew that NO credible Palestinian leadership would ever accept anything short of a state)and had the Israeli government not spent decades demonizing anyone who supported a "two-state solution" as "anti-Israel" (and essentially antisemitic), when the Israeli government knew that the people who supported that WEREN'T anti-Israeli, and had the Israeli government followed the advice of people like Ben-Gurion and pulled out of the West Bank quickly, rather than staying for decades and building a settler movement the Israeli government ALWAYS knew was illegal, peace would have been achieved decades ago.

BTW, the PLO didn't "foment" the 1967 war. It was actually caused by the Soviet Union's decision to panic the surrounding Arab states with the news that Israel was developing nuclear weapons. Those states then mobilized their armies as a defensive measure. This war was caused by reckless meddling on the USSR's part, not the mythical "unrelenting Arab campaign to 'destroy Israel'".