True. That withdrawal points out that the focus was then concentrated on the group that no longer took arms against Israel: the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
As pointed out in
message 93, reported by Israel Journalist Meron Rapaport:
The end of the Netanyahu doctrine
“the Palestinian Authority is a burden and Hamas is an asset.”
No question about it. If the US wanted to take over North Korea, Việt Nam, Afghanistan..., that could be done also.
Similarly, Israel could have taken over the West Bank and Gaza in 1948 when it created its state too.
Instead, it chose the incremental approach, as pointed out in message 93 above.
However, the world today is not like it was before the creation of the UN. There are international laws even when a more powerful state overcomes weaker people.
In the Vietnam War, I still remember the US showed a clip of the US military helicopter lifting and evacuating a Vietnamese farmer's water buffalo (most villagers were displaced on foot and vehicles).
The clip showed that the mighty US military would evacuate the civilians in the war zone before attacking the village.
During the occupation of Afghanistan, the US did not starve the population while attacking the Taliban.
I don't like Netanyahu and definitely prefer a stop to settlements, but I don't see a big problem with his doctrine.
1. “peace with the Arab world while completely ignoring the Palestinians.”
2. Israel propers without the need for peace with the Palestinians:
Um... those make sense to me? Palestinians have repeatedly refused reasonable peace deals. It totally make sense to setup your country to run and be secure and NOT dependent on making peace with the Palestinian territories.
3. Solution: Blockade that creates the largest prison in the world.
LOL. I mean believe what you want I guess, but most people who've looked at this understand that Hamas is constantly shooting rockets at Israel made from pipes and cement. That's with the blockade. It's quite clear that if there wasn't a blockade, Hamas would try to import more potent weapons.
After all, Hamas' stated doctrine was the elimination of Israel.
Again, Hamas, the governing body of Gaza, has the stated objective to eliminate Israel. And many westerners don't even blink an eye at that mindset. As if that's normal? Then act incredulous that Israel would have a blockade?
Who wouldn't?
I'll tell you. Not Egypt. They also have a blockade on Gaza.
Offer for land? It's more like a practice of "Israeli settlements" and the Palestinians will be wiped off the map pretty soon.
It's doubtful that even when the Palestinians are wiped off the map, the cycle of revenge killings will ever stop if there's no negotiation for peace.
Now for this. This is extremely disingenous. I hope these aren't the sort of sources you are getting your information. No wonder people are biased.
This chart does not show Palestinian land. Palestine was never a country. It just shows all the land that wasn't Jewish owned. It all wasn't owned by Arabs.
Here's a real map. Are you ready? The blue is Jewish owned, land, the green is Arab owned. In 1945.
The white was not owned by anyone. The Ottomans controlled the land until 1917, then the British. The whole south was barren, it is the Negev Desert. To act like that was Arab land that Israel "stole" is a total joke and propaganda.
Notice most of the Arab owned land is in the West Bank and Gaza. That's where they settled for many years prior. Jews bought land along the coast, allegedly not as desirable as it was swamp and not easy to farm on.
The proposed partition made a reasonable compromise in the sense of how the ownership was split up.
There was no reason that Arabs living in this area deserved to control all the land in 1947.
There is definitely no reason to think they deserve to now.
UNHRC needs to replace UNRWA in the territories to stop the extremely biased teaching of history that even westerners promote. Refugee status needs to be revoked for all descendants of the original refugess.
A 2 state solution needs to be agreed on as previously offered. West Bank and Gaza need to be demilitarized.