A future together or not future at all...

Well as I said last blog, having kicked on the Israelis, settlement and the legal taking of hostages via arrest, it is time to look at why the Israelis are so hostile. And they are, hostile, but would you not be if since the literal inception of your nation your Arab neighbours have been sworn to your elimination. That until literally forces at the end of a gun and with the promise of statehood, the Palestinians, as lead by Yasser Arafat, did not recognise the right of existence of a Jewish state and that less than a decade ago. Now this is not that new in history, there are been many states that denied others, one could look at Northern Ireland or India and Pakistan.
So, living in a community that believe they have no right to exist there is the other matter that since its inception, Israel has been in 4 major wars with its neighbours, were it has been the on the defensive, except for Lebanon but that could be argued as defensive because of the cross boarder attacks by militia. So no only has there been a moral attack on them but also a classical military conflict…so two vary very good reasons for Israel to the Palestinians as they do, think about how the west treated Nazis…no I do not think Palestinians are as bad as Nazis but I think to the Jews of Israel the comparison is valid, and it is threw there eyes.
Now coupled with this more traditional animosity, the Palestinians use a common tool the weak use against the strong - terrorism. I will not make a moral judgment on why and how the Palestinians use suicide bombing and other techniques but they have had a profound and powerful effect on their enemy, but not totally as expected. This elevates the level of buy-in of the populations. Unlike the US and Vietnam where the population could sympathies with the “enemy” because the battles were other there, and did not effect them personally except when bodies came home and even that was not strictly blamed on the Vietcong, because they were thousands of miles away, the true enemy was the US government, not only because of there aggression (and we could for the sake of this argument give them that it was a defensive war) but because they were who the people interacted with. When the source, real of perceived, of your anxiety is in your midst, at arms reach we strike back, in rage, in fear, in a desperate attempt to regain normality, to return to the safety in the familiar.
The Israelis live with, work with are indistinguishable from the Palestinians, and they, the bombers have betrayed the trust, what there was. They made the familiar not a comfort but a source of fear, of apprehension. The Jews of Israel are afraid, and the sources of that fear are the Arabs, the Palestinians, and the history that has intermingled them all. You may believe the Israelis have over reacted, are aggressors, are many things but you must grant them that they have had cause; they have been injured again and again.
What we can learn from both sides; that fear breeds fear, violence breeds violence. That I can understand why the Israelis arrest and occupy the Palestinians lands; that I can understand why the Palestinians use terror to defend themselves, they see the Jews as invaders. It is a sad state where both sides must share blame for the current situation, and understand they are not alone in sharing the blame. They need to, somehow, forget the past, and remember they are the same people; citizens of the Middle East who must move into the future together or neither will have future. .