Why does Israel so adamantly oppose Palestinian statehood..,

..,To the point they want to punish other countries that do?

Is it because once Palestine is recognized as a country, the borders of the respective countries are now settled? I keep going back to the failed Camp David negotiations back in the late 1990s. It sounds like Israel was willing to consider Palestinian statehood in limited capacity then, but they wanted the west bank to be a “swiss cheese” type map of palestinian and israeli parts.

That makes it sound like Israel was after a land grab, and they would only accept a settlement if it includes post-1967 land. Is this accurate? Things have devolved since then, and now it seems they oppose Palestinian statehood at all. Does Israel have a formal policy of what they prefer done with occupied lands?

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DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M

People in the ME have been fighting since the Pharaoh ran the Jews out of Egypt, and probably before that.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent peace situation in the ME, unless Hamas, Hezbollah and other organizations (Isis, ). stop getting funded by other nations.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@DallasCowboysFan people in Washington have been arming war zones illegally. Eight tenths of global war is financed by Washington. And yet you don't want to understand, so we have to say, Americans and their allies are deadly, and there's no talking that reaches them. They're perfectly likely to call the wars natural, and they're only going to blame the natives. Thousands of years all their targets have been warring thousands of years. Americans say they're peaceful