Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay (NY Times op-ed) [View all]pelsar
(12,283 posts)its a generic question, nothing to do with israeli policy, we'll get to that. Now that we've already established that the Palestinians do in fact have some power, the next question is how much?
In Jordan the Palestinians nearly caused a civil war and over 10,000 deaths... i would say that clearly shows the Palestinians in fact do have political power. Jordan, didn't have to attack the Palestinians, but the choices made by the Palestinians made that a reasonable choice
In Lebanon, same thing. The PLO attempted to murder israelis knowing full well that eventually Israel would militarily react, and they did. The ensuing war causing many deaths. The Palestinians could have refrained from shooting and israel would have not crossed the border as they had not done previous to the attacks, the PLO decided to change the status quo.
Again we see that the Palestinians in fact have quite a bit of power to create change.
We can look at Intifada I and II, both caused massive changes in the environment, those changes started when the Palestinians decide on a policy change.
would you like so more examples of the ability of the Palestinians to cause change in the environment do to their own changes in policy..i.e. power?
hence its pretty clear that the Palestinians power to make changes is not "zilch".