Can the Hamas-Israel problem be resolved?

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/12/on-hamas-gaza-palestinian-people-israel.html

It will not be resolved by human intellect and reason, as long as there is the kind of failure to understand, and consider, history that seems to be at the root of many of the current problems.

Understand, as you read, the author's perspective. My way of looking at the world, "worldview," some like to call it, is heavily influenced by Quakerism, which rests on the values of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship. Valuing practice over doctrine, human life is a sacred gift and within humans is a spark or inner light which unites us all together and makes us equal. We believe that it is possible for human beings to coexist, and live in freedom, without fear of persecution, out of respect for each other as equals, when our values are aligned. And while that is extremely idealistic, it takes into account human flaws and develops a system of accountability.

Could a political state have been created in Palestine that would have allowed for the settlement of Jewish immigrants from all over the rest of the world, giving Jews a refuge and a homeland without displacing the existing Arabic population, creating a country that would be a constitutional democracy guaranteeing individual freedom and protecting human rights? We haven't really been completely successful at doing that in our own experiment with Democracy. In a part of the world where deep-seated religious beliefs fight against the whole concept of human equality and basic human rights, it might have been an impossible dream.

[MOMFUDSKI]

1. No.

The hatred is too strong.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. It's a Hamas problem, plain and simple

Whether / how that can be solved is the only question.