@Foxfyre,
The majority vote in Israel ensures the survival of Israel as an ethnocentric state, to "survive" as such, it must control it's non-majority population through discriminatory measures,and must oppress outright the Palestinians who have a right to return, or be duly compensated, as afforded them by UN resolution 194, to the lands they were displaced from following the Nakba of 1948.
To rationalize your ridiculous assertion that "the Palestinians have already indicated in very clear terms that they have zero intention of ensuring that all the citizens of Israel will be treated equally and fully protected," you bring up Hezbollah.
Here's a hint for you, foxfyre, Hezbollah are a
Lebanese political, paramilitary and terrorist organization. They are not Palestinians.
As regards Hamas and the PLO, it is disingenuous to apply their charter and their early objectives as an indication of what "the Palestinians indicate." The Palestinian people, by and large recognize Israel's existence. Most merely want recognition from Israel of their plight, and restitution for their displacement as a result of the creation of the state of Israel.
According to the New York Times in its March 26, 2007 article,
For Many Palestinians, ‘Return’ Is Not a Goal by Hasan M. Fattah,
Quote:in 2003, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in the West Bank city of Ramallah, in one of the most comprehensive surveys conducted on the subject, found that most Palestinians would be unlikely to move if they were granted the right of return.
"Once the Palestinian narrative is assured, then the tactical issue of where they will go becomes easy to approach," said Khalil Shikaki, who directs the center. "Everybody wants the emotional question addressed; everybody is happy with the likely modalities."
He added, "The novel aspect of the survey is, once we gave assurances about the right of return, the other issues became very resolvable,” meaning that many said they would take compensation and would not move."
As early as 2004 Ahmed Yassin one of the creators of Hamas had indicated an accommodation with Israel of decades or even "a hundred years" if Israel agreed to withdraw from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel responded by killing him, along with several bystanders, with rockets fired from a helicopter.
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/1519
Furthermore,
as reported in your very own source, in February of 2006 Hamas had indicated a willingness to commit to a long-term ceasefire if Israel would withdraw from all land it occupied in 1967. In that same month:
Quote:in an interview in Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta,[43] Mashal again held out the possibility of a long-term truce with Israel if Israel recognized the 1949 armistice lines, withdrew from all Palestinian territories (including the West Bank and East Jerusalem) and recognized Palestinian rights that would include the "right of return". He reaffirmed this stance in a March 5, 2008 interview with Al Jazeera English,[73] citing Hamas's signing of the 2005 Cairo Declaration and the National Reconciliation Document, and denied any rejectionist stance.
After coming to power, some Hamas leaders reiterated earlier announcements that Hamas was giving up suicide attacks, and "offered a 10-year truce [with Israel] in return for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories: the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem."[74][75][76] Hamas also declared a unilateral ceasefire with Israel which, after Israeli air strikes in response to Hamas smuggling weapons into Gaza, was formally renounced.[77]
As far as the PLO is concerned, you're really grasping at straws when you reach back to their activities
from four decades ago to rationalize your ridiculous assertion that "the Palestinians have already indicated in very clear terms that they have zero intention of ensuring that all the citizens of Israel will be treated equally and fully protected." The PLO makes up the majority portion of the Palestinian Authority, the very same authority that
supports the two state solution, and that was backed by the Bush Administration itself.
