Reply #19: Pretty much it does.

[Igel]

The most disturbing thing is that everybody seems to think it's new and novel.

I don't know. Might it be that they're just unable to remember more than a few days back--if those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, what about those who forget that there even might be a history? Might it be that they feel some need to claim that all good things can only come from Obama, or that everything prior to Obama was jahiliyya?

What *might* be new is placing the Palestinian and Israeli security and defensible border concerns on par. I think it's nearsighted: Israel has a set of border concerns. One concern may be Palestinian incursions and attacks; Israel and Palestine have differing histories for the basis of attacks and their frequency and occurrence. Mirroring this concern is Palestine's: Palestine would plausibly have to be concerned only incursions and attacks by Israel. However, Israel also has to worry about attacks from other state actors in the region, given its history; these aren't shared by Palestine, it seems unlikely to me that Egypt would invade and occupy Gaza for the sake of Gaza, to wipe out the Palestinian regime and make all the Palestinians return "home" to homes that they've never known. (That being more the Palestinian viewpoint--to have the Palestinians return "home" to homes they've never known.)