Ernest Beven, the British Foreign Secretary during Mandatory Palestine (who was himself an anti-Zionist, finding that Zionism ultimately interfered with British imperialist interests) said this in 1947: “His Majesty's Government have thus been faced with an irreconcilable conflict of principles. There are in Palestine about 1,200,000 Arabs and 600,000 Jews. For the Jews the essential point of principle is the creation of a sovereign Jewish State. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine.” This was before Bibi. Before Hamas. Before accusations of genocide, blockades, wars, occupations etc. For those that say, “the problem will end once we just end X” (insert any of the above) are not being honest about (or simply aren’t aware of) the core of the conflict, which is a resistance to a Jewish state and resistance to a Jewish state alone. That is why the only answer to resolving the conflict - the answer that ends all wars, deaths, and tragedies, is quite simply (and always has been) just acceptance of the Jewish state.
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