PigletJohn ……. Re your long term questions re Israel and Palestine.
Re Israeli land give back – Whether Israel can ever trust Palestinians who elected Hamas after they began to give them more autonomy my moving EVERY SETTLER out of Gaza, OR while Israel is still under threat by unstable regimes/countries around them that previously together tried to wipe them off the face of the earth, I doubt it, for the foreseeable future. What government in their right mind would give those militarily opposed to Israel, more space from which to attack them and finish the job they collectively started?
Re non Jew citizen rights – frankly I have no idea how those ‘rights’ would change their lives, but would that include pensions etc, or Human Rights Jihadist suicide bombers give Israeli citizens? From memory, I’m not sure Japan gives foreign workers full citizen rights, or Germany with Turkish workers there for decades, even China giving their own people ‘rights’ – so as Israel is no EU, I’ll pass on that for now, unless pressed and I’ll do my homework.
Re illegal settlements (clearly away from Gaza the current humanitarian Hamas crisis) – they should stop, whether illegal or not.
PigletJohn ….. but does that justify the democratically elected Hamas using their own voter casualties via starting their artillery ping-pong matches, to try and get world opinion to get Israel and their citizens to feel more ‘secure’ in these even more troubled times????
On a t-t-t-t-timing basis, is a Jihadist Hamas perpetual war within a troubled region with more regime changes and intra Muslim aggression than I can remember, going to improve or make things politically worse with Israel, than in 2006, when they were elected???
When will Israel and it's people feel secure enough to even think of giving back land - and no one needs to be Israeli to ask that questions, as it should be the 'bleedin obvious, to those encouraging Hamas to continue it's war/casualties in the current form.