Reply #28: Poverty & deprivation drives conflict

[SoCalDem]

no matter how much it gets denied.. If you coop up an entire population and cut them off from traveling, or holding meaningful jobs that can support a family, or sending their kids to school, they will turn to whatever group appears to be "on their side".. An organization that offers you food, building supplies, a school for your kids, "may" also ask for your support against their "enemies"..

Our government does this all the time with poor countries.. we send them aid, and then dictate their behavior...when we do it with upper echelon countries, we call it military aid to an ally...or commerce.....when it's a poor country, we call it humanitarian aid.. I'm sure that Hezzbollah & Hamas call their aid "humanitarian" as well..If we do not "approve" of their behavior, we cut people off, demonize them, and drive them into the arms of organizations we "like" even less..and we energize them to a level they probably never realized they could reach.. This is the stuff of worldwide "movements" .

There was a time that countries could bully their neighbors into submission, and it migth get a few paragraphs in papers a few days later, but with cameras everywhere, and the internet, winning hearts & minds, with tanks, soldiers & bullets just won't work anymore..

Either Israelis need to start having 10 kids per family, or they need to come to terms that they will always be a minority, being pressed by an ever-growing Arabic population. They cannot shoot their way out of that fact. Their autonomy will be challenged because of the proximity of the descendents of people their predecessors pushed aside, and nothing will change that fact.. It's time for them alll to fish or cut bait.