In our lifetime, will the palestinians get an independent state?

Answer 1

If there are any left alive.

Answer 2

Doesn't a "lifetime" rather depend on how old you are? *grins*

As should be evident to any fair observer, there is a self-perpetuating nature to the conflict. Within five minutes of asking the question, one has people blaming the Americans, the English, the Palestinians, and Zionists in general.

In order for the conflict to end, one of three things must happen:

1. All the Palestinians must leave and/or die.
2. All the Jews must leave and/or die.
3. Jewish and Palestinian leaders must agree to broker a peace in which each side will commit to offering up their pawns. This means that Palestinians must provide good-faith transparency in investigating those responsible for suicide bombings and lobbing mortar shells over the border. It also means that Israeli helicopters don't get to shoot rockets into Gaza apartment buildings. Et cetera.

In order for there to be peace, both sides must take deliberate steps to avoid skipping past due process and devolving back to violent means.

Those who cannot see any way past the violence are suffering from the same sort of foolishness as those who could not see any way past the Iron Curtain. (See also, Curtis LeMay.) Contrary to the popular rhetoric, this is largely a modern problem, borne from dissolution of the Ottomans in the early 20th Century and brought to fruition by the horror of the Holocaust.

This does not, however, mean that peace is by any means a certainty--indeed, in the near term (5-10 years) it seems difficult to conceive of in any realistic fashion. It would seem to require some shattering event or series of events that completely fatigues both parties. But in the mid to long term (20-100 years), it seems to me that weariness of a sort may very well settle in, particularly if some economic or social incentive can be found that may entice the parties to see beyond the last bomb.

Of course, by the time Israel and Palestine are playing nice, we should probably expect that some other chronically bitter animosity will have evolved to take its place... Heh.

Answer 3

Palestinians have been living in a state of conflict so long that they have lost themselves to it. they can not concede any more than Israel will and this means there will never be peace as long as one group still lives to fight. the Palestinians have stopped making choice that might lead to an independent state and are only looking for ways to lash out so that the world can feel their pain. they are lost and i pity them, but i will never hate a people that just want a place to call home. i will pray for them to find peace within themselves and then they might find in the world.

Answer 4

NO! The Americans and English will not allow it. There is too much pressure from the Jewish community in those countries, as well as others that will not allow the Palestinians to have the land that they want to make themselves a sovereign power.

Answer 5

I think it wont happen. But don't forget an important issue:
there are many Muslims living in Israel (they are citizens) and they are becoming more children than then Jew population of Israel. If the birthrate of the Muslim population continues in that way then maybe in not a far time Israel will be a Muslim state with a Jewish minority.

Answer 6

Absolutely not. They have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the only reason they are in the region at all is to kill jews.

In a very short time, they will be forced to leave. This is VERY clear based on the actions of Israel right now. The arabs will be damn lucky if they are allowed to leave with their lives. If it was up to me, they would all be dead.

Answer 7

"Palestinian" made effort to be independent or at least don't force by Zionists.
I think we (Muslim countries) must make more effort to help them.
As we see everyday, Zionists are killing and running out Palestinian of their forefather lands. So if we want / wish independent for them, we should help them.

Answer 8

As long as their government is affiliated with Hamas, I don't see it ever happening. Their preoccupation with killing is just too uncivilized to be allowed sanction by becoming a sovereign nation. Just to show how little they value their lives, the fact that they ask for hundreds of their jailed comrades to be released in return for the one teenage Israeli they kidnapped.

Answer 9

Nope. To obtain a state, they'd have to give up trying to erase Israel. And that they will never do.

Answer 10

I hope not. They will get in to regional wars with the other Muslim countries.

Answer 11

Hmmm...maybe.