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I think that the biggest problem is that nobody calling the shots actually wants peace. The people being blown up and terrorized want peace. Most of the people outside of Israel and Palestinian land want peace, because they're sick of the conflict agitating their populations. But the ongoing conflict has a huge benefit to the people fighting it.
Without a fight, Hamas has nothing. Take away the struggle and the money stops pouring in and angry young men quit joining up. They exist solely to fight with Israel and in doing so diminish the 'moderate' voices of the Palestinian people. You give them a fight and they get stronger. If no one is fighting them, suddenly people will have the ability to question their corruption and hypocrisy, by killing their own people, and their lack of political vision in the care of their people. Militant Palestinian groups require the conflict with Israel to justify their position and avoid criticism by the people they claim to represent.
Groups like Hezbollah operate on the same principle and are reaping the rewards of having oppressed Palestinians. They need that condition to help their movement succeed. Countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia would really like the Palestinian issue solved. Not because they give a damn about the Palestinians, but because it's an impediment to political and social progress as long as it remains.
Unfortunately, Israel also needs the ongoing struggle, but mostly for financial reasons. As long as Israel is actively scrapping with the Arabs, they can justify the billions of dollars every year shoveled their way in unconditional loans from the US, with unprecedented favourable conditions attached to those loans. They can also count on billions of dollars in extra investment, above and beyond the regular transfer payments, in direct funding to their military industries and R&D. Do you honestly think that the people who profit the most from those billions of dollars, the military brass and supporting industries, really want to lose all that funding? Militant settlers certainly don't want peace. They want to keep what they've got and take more. Israel might have to actually start sharing resources like water equitably if there was peace and they have no interest in doing so. They shot the last Israeli who tried to bring peace to the crisis.
Without a fight, Hamas has nothing. Take away the struggle and the money stops pouring in and angry young men quit joining up. They exist solely to fight with Israel and in doing so diminish the 'moderate' voices of the Palestinian people. You give them a fight and they get stronger. If no one is fighting them, suddenly people will have the ability to question their corruption and hypocrisy, by killing their own people, and their lack of political vision in the care of their people. Militant Palestinian groups require the conflict with Israel to justify their position and avoid criticism by the people they claim to represent.
Groups like Hezbollah operate on the same principle and are reaping the rewards of having oppressed Palestinians. They need that condition to help their movement succeed. Countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia would really like the Palestinian issue solved. Not because they give a damn about the Palestinians, but because it's an impediment to political and social progress as long as it remains.
Unfortunately, Israel also needs the ongoing struggle, but mostly for financial reasons. As long as Israel is actively scrapping with the Arabs, they can justify the billions of dollars every year shoveled their way in unconditional loans from the US, with unprecedented favourable conditions attached to those loans. They can also count on billions of dollars in extra investment, above and beyond the regular transfer payments, in direct funding to their military industries and R&D. Do you honestly think that the people who profit the most from those billions of dollars, the military brass and supporting industries, really want to lose all that funding? Militant settlers certainly don't want peace. They want to keep what they've got and take more. Israel might have to actually start sharing resources like water equitably if there was peace and they have no interest in doing so. They shot the last Israeli who tried to bring peace to the crisis.
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