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Comment by reliabilityguy

1 day ago

> The Palestinians spent most of the 1980s trying to simply get the Israelis to come to the table and talk, and 1990s trying to get the Israelis to agree to a Palestinian state on 1967 borders. The Palestinians were consistently more interested in a peace deal than the Israelis were. The simple reason is that Israel suffers very few negative consequences from its occupation of the Palestinian territories. It has very little incentive to make any peace deal.

So, nothing concrete beyond your opinions not grounded in facts. Okay.

> Israel came very close to defeat in 1973, and had to rely on an unprecedented resupply effort by the United States, which replaced nearly the entire Israeli tank force and much of the airforce within days.

What? How do you replace entire tank force within days from across the globe?? How do you train the crews on new equipment? Why are inventing things that never happened?

> The Israelis were aware of their vulnerability after 1973, which is why they entered negotiations with the Egyptians. Negotiations take time, which is why the whole process took several years.

Realizing that piece is better than constant wars and trading the land for it is a good move. I’m not sure what are you trying to show here.

> But you're quibbling about the details of how IDF soldiers get paid, as if that made any moral difference.

Devil is in the details though, right? :) I know that you cannot have an evidence based discourse because it will be quickly shown that Palestinians incentivize non-conventional terror warfare, while Israelis not.

Getting people paid to kill civilians is immoral.

> I'm not trying to draw any equivalence. The IDF is a thousand times more evil than any Palestinian organization.

Of course not. Making your own people blow themselves up in cafes and buses is immoral.