Reply #37: What do you mean by that? [View All]

[Jackie97]

They won't see themselves as anything but supreme victims as Jews, victims as Israelis, or something else?

Actually, I do have to point out that aside from this Roadmap to Peace that just pretty much fell through, the Palestinians are not known for ever have even trying the peaceful approach. In the eyes of most Israelis, they got the Infidata in return for trying to give them some of their land back (Contiguous offer and uncontigous plan to offer aside). A while back, I believe it was somebody on this board that presented an article stating that the Hamas would keep attacking Israel in response to Israel asking for a one year ceasefire. In the eyes of many Israelis, trying to negotiate is making things worse. On that note, shouldn't the Palestinians at least try the peaceful approach?

I'm not trying to be condemning in this post. I'm simply saying that the peaceful approach towards Israel hasn't been tried enough to even analyze. Plus, the more bombings that come, the more the Israelis and Jews will think of themselves as the supreme victims and will be less willing to comprimise.