This seems a lot of words, but not sure what to make of them.

Here is my take on a possible Penguin middle ground:

PRO ISRAEL STATEMENT

(1) If someone attacks you, you have a right to defend yourself. Shooting missles into someones territory is an act of war. Declaring explicitly that you intend to destroy a country is an act of war. If they invade you, or kill you. Well that is what happens in war.

So Israel is justified in exercising significant aggression.

PRO PALESTINIAN STATEMENTS

(2) Israel hold most of the cards in this region, so they are responsible for what happens. Don't want to be responsible for a region, fine. Then you may not hold control of it. You cannot have it both ways. They need to provide a path for all peoples they control to have jobs, food, shelter, safety, etc. Israel is failing in this, and they seem to have no forward looking plan to fix this.

==> It is a kind of slavery to keep a people generation after generation under your thumb with no hope of escape.

(3) Increasing settlements in the area is just aggression. It does not lower tensions, nor make Israel safer, it is just taking. Its just wrong, and destabalizes Palestinian region since the population feel they have no choice but to attack.

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Palestinaian violence is foolish as it ultimately causes more harm to self than Israel, and actually REMOVES political pressures on Israel. And political pressures are the only ones that will change this.

Israelies are smart, but quite machivellian, in their strategy. Both settlements and stagnation drive Palestinians to dispair, which leads to the violence that removes all pressure for compromise. All the while they slowly grow power and control in the region. Ultimately I think current leadership hopes to allow a two state solution in order to avoid absorbing so many non Jew citizens, but only after they have grabbed more land, and have slices the region into managable pieces.