Outline the reasons why peace between Israel and the Palestinians has been difficult

this whole 'debate' has effectively demonstrated quite possibly the biggest reason as to why achieving peace has been so difficult...

Yep, if you look to the post above yours, you can see peeweedan, he is similar to 90% of israelies who are racist and want nothing but the destruction of palestinians.

If i were you i'd talk about that.

If not, talk about democracy, Israels democracy, and Gazas lack of.

The problem is not on our side.

But didn't you say this?

if we're talking about Hamas, the root cause is their ideological inspiration andt he support this ideology has amongst palestinians. Their ideology goes against a peaceful resolution (regardless of whether or not Israel is willing for peace)

israel is unstable... no codified constitution etc? would that be relevant

So did Fatah, Arafat and the PLO once upon a time, I wouldn't say that Iran "back them with rockets"... many of the rockets are either homemade, or in Russian or Chinese origin, yes Iran provides money etc. (but 90% of hamas has a social side - health, education etc..).

...and "Also that Iran is fighting proxy wars with Israel for regional influence."... I kinda doubt that.



5 Issues? Gaza, W. Bank, Right of return, Jerusalem and security?

I would say the Right of return was more of a stumbling block than Jerusalem

Np, Hamas wants the desctruction of Israel, but the palestinians don't.
And Israelies want the destruction of Gaza, and because they have a democracy, they vote for the candidate who promises harsh retaliation.

Israelies are the most racist people in the world, you would have thought that after the holocaust, they wouldn't be, but the opposite has happend, in a way, they want revenge.

No, a fraction broke the ceasefire and Hamas clashed with the fraction too.

just look at the statistics, Hamas fired no rockets during the ceasefire and Israel admits it.

The UK would not retaliate in anything like the way Israel would. We learnt from the conflict in Northern Ireland that for every freedom fighter you kill, you will create more hatred towards you and therefore there will be more freedom fighters the next time. And now things seem to be going better. Notice there's no concrete wall around Northern Ireland, by the way.

The UK doesn't have a written constitution either...
And I wouldn't particularly say Israeli politics were unstable.

but british parliamentary politics have evolved over hundreds of years, in a way that maybe french or italian or russian systems have not, so there are still safeguards entrenched in the british political system. whereas the divisions along ethnic lines, and the parliamentary coalitions in Israel (as well as considering the context of israeli history, the israeli-palestinian conflict and their claims to sovereignty in the grander scheme of things..) i think means that it probably is less stable.

Recognize and negotiate with a terrorist group who's only goal is your destruction due to a religion. What's to discuss? The method of execution? And opening the borders=more advanced rockets, removing settlers=expelling 300,000 people, giving carrots=giving opportunities to fire rocekts, sending spies=new opportunity for people to criticize us, talk with Iran=brick wall.