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Command Post What is this?
Posted on Oct 17, 2014
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SPC George Rudenko
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I don't see Palestine getting along with Palestine. T.E. Lawrence: So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.
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MSG Brad Sand
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No.
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
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I guess it all depends upon who is willing to relinquish their hatred first... 
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MSG Brad Sand
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
In truth, the Israelis have tried to work toward peace but the Palestinians have always demanded more and then started killing again? Hard to work with people when their only goal is to kill you. I do not even think they really even know why.
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
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MSG Brad Sand - Agreed. Epigenetically, when you don't know what you don't know and don't even know that you don't know it, one is pretty much doomed to living out one's genetic history.
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes
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MSG Brad Sand
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Interesting...not sure I buy it but still interesting.
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SSG Audwin Scott
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I doubt that very seriously!
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CPT Pedro Meza
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Israel and Palestine will only learn to work together when they realize and accept that they came from the same Father. In essence when they practice Honor thy Father and stop listening to the politicians and religious leader that disobey that Commandment.
Interesting fact Obey God you have peace, obey men you have war.
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SFC Charles S.
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My guess, not until armageddon, and then it will only be due to the fact that neither will continue to exist.
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MAJ David Vermillion
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I want to think so but the past says otherwise.
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SSgt Michael Smith
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In the pre WWII days the Jews and Palestinians did get along. The repatriation aided by Great Britain and following heavy handed tactics towards Palestine led to the first real tensions. The forcible removal of the residents and taking of their property to give the Jews an upper hand, supported by Western nations, lit the fuse. The events of 1947 only exacerbated the situation.
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1LT Keith Gannon
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PO2 Rocky Kleeger
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Not in my lifetime
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Cpl Aaron Nelson
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Yes. For a period of three and a half years there will be peace. Sometime in the near future I don't doubt.
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LCpl Paul Fajardo
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Honestly, I don't think they will get along for more then a years time. If, you take a look back in history. They've been fighting each other for centuries. 
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Capt Jeff S.
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He's referring to a Biblical prophesy...
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SGT Ben Hilger
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I would love to live and see them coexist..... However, it's going to take generations of forgiveness and acceptance to see this as a reality
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There is a significant amount of history to take into account and the conflict between the Israeli government and Hamas is largely along political ideological lines as opposed to necessarily religious lines. There is a solution for peace, but it requires a level of cooperation that I'm not sure Hamas nor Israel is able to accept right now. I think it would be easier for Israel and the west to accept a more PLO style rule in the west bank as opposed to Hamas, but I'm not positive that any of us will see that anytime in the near future. Its hard for Palestinian people to really accept an isolated state the way it is now, and its hard for the west to accept a NON-isolated state (at least the louder aspects of the west). Neither Hamas nor the historically recent mindset of the PLO are directly against Israel having a sovereign state, but the conflict is so muddled in violence and rhetoric that its hard to definitively nail down the exact desires of either side. It also doesn't help that border lines, while roughly drawn along some sort of logical reasoning, don't necessarily take into account true tribal borders.

The Elon Peace Plan seemed to have an interesting logical take in terms of tribal breakdowns, but it was backwards on which country should absorb the west bank IMO. I think a more palatable solution might be if Jordan absorbed the west bank and became a pan-arab state but its hard to say that Gaza should remain as some sort of independent Palestinian state under Hamas or Fatah, be absorbed by Israel, be some sort of Jordanian state separated by Israel, or what. Either way, its hard and I'm not sure we will see peace break out in the next 30-40 years which is understandable since boundary lines have been moving around a decent amount over the recent past.

And yeah, I realize that my two paragraph response was in no way an answer.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
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Golda Meir, late Prime Minister of Israel, said it best. "If the Arabs lay down their weapons and stop attacking Israel, there will be peace. If Israel lays down its weapons, Israel will cease to exist."
There are no Jews in Gaza, they have been removed long ago via ethnic cleansing. Israel has never been invited to any conference in Gaza, because Gaza has been for several years under control of Hamas, a radical Islamic terrorist group. Under the Oslo Accords, there were established A, B and C Zones in the West Bank. In A Zones, no Jews are allowed on pain of death. In B Zones, Jews may in theory transit through a B Zone, but in reality, Jews transiting through B Zones are in mortal danger of attack by Arabs. In C Zones, Jews may live, and so can Arabs. In the West Bank therefore, there is no "Israel apartheid state", it is in fact quite the opposite. Arabs can live in A, B and C Zones, Jews can only live in C Zones, and even there they are in danger.
There is NO "moral equivalence" between Israel and Hamas. I have in my career worked with several IDF officers, and I've never met any military group that takes more effort to prevent civilian casualties, not even us. Israel has NEVER set out on any military mission with the goal to kill old people, unarmed civilians and infants. Hamas has provided us with home movies from their own terrorists showing them killing innocent Israeli civilians. This includes footage of Hamas terrorists beheading Israeli babies. I can find no rationale for anyone to support any group that sends out armed terrorists to behead babies.
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CW4 Richard Norton
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PO3 Michelle Tremblay
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Now is your answer
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SPC George Rudenko
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T.E. Lawrence: So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.
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SGT Jerrold Pesz
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There will only be peace when one side or the other kills all of the other side.
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