Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders’ Candor on Israel Shows American Voters Are Changing Their Tune [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)....have rejected every offer. If they wanted their own state they could have had it LONG ago.
People aren't stupid. They know the history.
They know they cannot support a totalitarian racist, Palestinian leadership that is anti-human rights and regressive in every conceivable way.
They also know that if the Palestinians stopped fighting there'd be peace. OTOH, if the Jews stopped defending themselves, there'd be another genocide. Everyone knows this. Decent people can easily acknowledge this.
And anyone who's been in Israel knows it's one of the LEAST racist societies on the planet given the circumstances. Given the people have been under attack since before 1948 there. Any other country in the same situation would've nuked the Palestinians half a dozen times already in response.
It's really a no-brainer. It's just amazing that in 2016 Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PLO find so much support from regressive Left people who should know better than to hate Jews.