Spoken like somebody who hasn't spent their entire lives living under blockade.

As I said in the article, judging the motivations and priorities of people whose lives are nothing like yours, from your position of safety and freedom, gives you no hope of understanding them. They have lived and are living in circumstances you can't easily imagine. So you're going to have to try a little harder to understand what they'd be willing to do to get out of that situation.

As you likely know, the significant majority of Palestinians still support Hamas' attack against Israel. Even though it's costing them so much. This is partly because their media hasn't given them the full details of the atrocities carried out, they think this was just a standard military strike, but also because this atrocity, as monstrous as it was, has focused the world's attention on the plight of the Palestinian people like never before. They have their best chance for freedom in decades.

After decades of war with Egypt, Israel is now at peace. Why? Because they gave back the land they took during the war. Similar story with Jordan. But Israel have repeatedly refused to do that with Palestine because they want all the land between Jordan and the sea. They've been extremely open about this. In fact, just a few weeks before Oct 7th, Netanyahu stood on the floor of the UN and held up a map of "Greater Israel" with Palestine and Jordan completely removed. All Israeli territory.

This idea that Palestinians just loooove fighting and dying and they don't have legitimate ongoing grievances with Israel is so lazy. There's a draft resolution with the UN since 1988 that has overwhelming international support (138 members in favour, two abstentions, and only the US and Israel against), and requires nothing from Israel but that it stops breaking international law. There is a path to peace. Netanyahu and Co. just don't want it because they're just as extremist as Hamas.