My question would be how do you get Israel to moderate its behavior and allow a decent life in Gaza and some pathway to the end of half century occupation of the West
First explain how the Palestinians have moderated their behavior during the last century.
If you're pinned to the street with a boot squishing your face, the first move towards humane is the boot's owner's.
So you have a house, and you live in that house in a small neighborhood, peacefully, and yet, one day the neighbors attack you because they don't want you in that house and they want that neighborhood for themselves because they've decided you're not like them. So you defend your house and property from those who have attacked you, and you defeat them. And so, an arrangement is made to settle the neighborhood. The attackers to the west take some of the neighborhood, and the attackers to the east take some, and you are left with your house and property.
But those who attacked you from the east, from the west, and now from the north try again and again to take your house, and kill your children, because, again you are not like them. But you defend your house and your neighborhood so well, that your attackers lose parts of the neighborhoods.
You are attacked year after year, decade after decade, and yet you establish the only democracy in the region. The other neighbors coordinate their attacks on you, and they are successful at times and they kill many of your children.
So, you do what you need to do to defend your house and your children because over and over the attackers have repeated the same mantra, and taught it to all of their children, and their children's children: Your house and your family and your children and your children's children should be destroyed.
Still, you persevere. And you continue to defeat your attackers. You are shown to be among the greatest defenders of your family and your neighborhood in all of the history of the world. Because you know that your attackers will never stop from pursuing their stated goals of destroying you, your house, and your children.
Those attackers then go to distant lands and show the wounds and scars of their many defeats to the people there, but tell those in the distant lands nothing of their continued attacks on your house. They say nothing of their stated goals to destroy your house, your neighborhood, and killing you and your children. Instead, they claim they are victims of your oppression!
You can clearly show this is not the case. You show clearly to those distant denizens that in fact, you have been attacked over and over and over again merely because you are not like your neighbors. You are different.
But the folks in those distant lands do not wish to see it, they do not want to hear about all those times you've been attacked. They do not wish to hear of how the neighbors' stated goals are to destroy your house and your family.
Why? Because they, too, decide that you are not like them.
So they buy into the false notion that the aggressor is the oppressed and that defender is the oppressor.
They believe that because you've so successfully secured your neighborhood, your house, and your family and that your attackers have been so roundly defeated that you simply must be the oppressor.
They believe that up is now down, red is now blue, and you are the perpetrator of decades and decades of discord, merely because...you are not like them.
So, when you paint the Palestinians and their Arab supporters as the oppressed, you do it either because you are ignorant of history, or you also have decided that Jews are not like you, and therefore you will also believe whatever the Palestinians tell you.
Up is now down. Red is now blue. That's what you believe.
The boot is on the face of those who send their own children to blow themselves up in order to kill an Israeli. The boot is on the face because of those who work with the other neighbors to try to destroy Israel, and kill Israeli children,and kill Israeli families. The boot is on the face because of those who have said that this path of killing and destruction and war on the Jewish people is what shall ever be.
And yet you wish to lecture on who is "humane".
Because Jews are not like you.
Thank God, we are not like you.
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