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In contrast, Israelis say to Palestinians: the maximum limit of what you may get is something between 60% and 90% of West Bank and Gaza Strip (i.e. less than 22% of the land of historic Palestine). Concerning Jerusalem, it shall forever remain an eternal capital city of Israel.
As for the issue of refugees, they shall never think in return to their homeland. And as per the settlements, they will not be removed especially the bigger ones built over the best disputed lands in West Bank. After all, Palestinians have to accept not only the right for Israel to exist within final and safe borders, but Palestinians have also to accept the Jewishness of Israel.
This means that Israeli Arabs or the Palestinians of 1948 shall accept the fact that they will never be a majority in the Israeli society now or in the future, and they shall accept to live as a minority without national rights or equality with the other Israelis, and they have to immigrate in return for getting compensations or remain subject to pressures that makes their stay in their homes impossible.
For Palestinians, it is clear that the continuation of conflict and acts of violence will be better than accepting such solution.
In return for the comprehensiveness of the historic defeat before them, Palestinians believe that if they do not have anything to resist and win the conflict by force, they have a history at least.
In other words, Palestinians say: leave the conflict ongoing and leave the tension variables impose themselves until Israel finds itself unable to survive by force.
The demographic factor can play a crucial role in the end.
The question that is being echoed by the Palestinian consciousness: Why do we lose history if it is the only thing that works to our advantage?
Palestinians regard the whole process as follows:
The existence and continuation of the (external) conflicts with the Palestinians of West Bank and Gaza Strip deprive Israel from its ability to displace Palestinian population.
Leave the bomb of (internal) conflict grows and it will explode one day.
With the increase of birth rates among the Palestinians of 1948, with a decline in the rates of Jewish immigration to Israel, plus the decline in the birth rates among Israeli Jews, this may lead to the creation of more cases similar to Gaza Strip with the passage of time.
Figures, and future expectations around them, contribute in increase the complications of the Palestinian and Israeli visions, which means that the ongoing conflict today can be a mere joke compared to what might happen in the future.
To
be continued…
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