Bibi’s War: How Incompetence, Opportunism, and Rejection Led to a Catastrophe for Israel and Palestine

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Bibi's War: How Incompetence, Opportunism, and Rejection Led to a Catastrophe for Israel and Palestine
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Bibi and Hamas both thrive when there is no hope for peace and when Israelis and Palestinians hate one another

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It shows that even with right-wing policies, terrorism persists. Israel has the right to defend itself but should also seek peaceful solutions through negotiations with Palestinian groups to achieve long-term security.

It not only persists, it flares up.

It not only flares up it's an integral part of the vicious circle of violence.

Each sides actions fuel the hate of the other, and reignite and deepen it, because those actions are rooted in hate and as such perpetrate the kind of violence that breeds hate...

The identification and suppression of an other is sort of the point of conservative politics. Crisis breeds conservative politics. If both sides cause crisis for each other ....

It's obviously not a law of nature, but it seems mediation and/or threatening from a 3rd party is almost required to break out of it.