Friday, July 31, 2026
Savages Gonna Savage
Of course, you have the same problem now as you did back in the late 1990s, the 1980s, the 1970s, and going all the way back to the days before Israel was even founded: there's nobody on the other side willing to negotiate. They don't want an end to the conflict; they want to drive the Jews out, and with any luck, do so by killing them.
Every intermediary who has tried to resolve the conflict has discovered to their chagrin that the problem is not the Jews in Israel; shockingly, it's the people who tell you every day they are determined to kill them all. "From the River to the Sea" is not just a slogan. It is a mission statement.
Palestinians didn't invent terrorism, but they mastered the art and turned it into a lifestyle, along with a grievance and hate culture that is second to none.
The "Palestinian" identity is built on grievance; it is what makes a Palestinian a Palestinian. For all the talk of the "refugees" (nobody is a refugee after 75 years) being indigenous to Palestine/Israel, the truth is that most of the people who left during the first war against Israel came from elsewhere and were migrant workers.
Surrounding Arab states supported the Palestinians for decades for a variety of reasons, but every single one that did regretted it. Palestinians are poison everywhere they wind up because their ideology is driven by hate and a desire for power. The Lebanese Civil War was caused by Palestinians, and the country, which used to be majority Christian and peaceful, has lived to regret its willingness to accommodate Palestinian refugees.
During the latest Gaza war, no Arab country opened its arms to take in refugees. They aren't stupid, you know. Many of them are informally allied with Israel these days because they think the Iranians and Palestinians are nuts and dangerous.
