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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Stage 1: Law (1948)

Here are the laws. We’ll split the land with you.

Stage 2: Law of War (1967)

We’ll attack you using conventional war methods.

Stage 3: Mindless Negotiations (1980s)

We’ll negotiate, you won’t do so in good faith.

Stage 4: Two State Solution

Bill Clinton has us within a breath of solution. Oh, wait… at the last minute, Mr. Arafat says no?

Stage 5: Here’s Gaza. Good Luck. (2005-Present)

We can’t even… Because it’s clear your rulers don’t want a solution.

Stage 6: Let’s Copy ISIS! (2023)

We’ve tried everything. Sorry about your human shields.

I would have thought that a man of your intellect would not stoop to treating the Arab world as a single, undifferentiated mass. Egypt and Jordan fought multiple wars with Israel and then reached a durable peace, to the point that Egypt warned Israel that Hamas was up to something before the attacks.

It has no choice but to do what it’s doing. And to its credit, the Israelis, being good and decent people, who do not revel in the murder of civilians, it is doing so reverently and with extreme regret.

Isn't it pretty to think so? This is the triumph of wishful rhetoric over thought. There are all sorts of other subjects where you would be all over someone who said something this insipid.