Ok, I'm finally back at my laptop so I can read your lengthy dissertations better than on a small phone screen...
How many nations managed to maintain their existence as nations for nearly two millennia without living on their ancestral lands? If this is a unique case, then it merits a unique consideration.
Regardless, even if you completely disagree with my historic claim, you cannot disagree with the simple fact that between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there live approximately 7.2 million Jews and 7.6 million Palestinians.
You may disagree with me that both people deserve to live free within their own country, independent, sovereign, and safe from repeated attacks and destruction, but if you disagree with that, then I have nothing but disdain for you and have no desire to continue the conversation.
Where you say that to the Arabs living in Palestine, the Jews coming from Europe were colonizers, I can see that they might so believe. I don't share that viewpoint. In fact, I very much disagree with it, but they have every right to disagree with me. What they don't have the right to is to attack unarmed civilians using rockets aimed at cities, conducting a massive raid to massacre over 1000 civilians, commit gang rapes, cut fetuses from their mothers' wombs, pull children from their parents arms and killing them in front of the parents, killing parents in front of their kids, etc.
If in your mind any of that is "justified resistance," then you have lost the right to call yourself human.
Your claim that by declaring independence in 1948 on the portion of Palestine that the UN allocated to the Jewish people somehow Israel rejected the two-state solution, you are ignorant or deluded. Ben Gurion pushed for accepting the UN partition plan, and the declaration of independence was based on that partition plan. It was only after barely surviving and defeating massive attacks by the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, with support from other Arab states that Israel took over portions of the Arab partition.
Suggesting that the Jews should have moved somewhere else to create a new homeland is nothing new. In fact, Herzl suggested as much in the Zionist Congress as a means to most rapidly set up a place of refuge for the Jews of eastern Europe who were being raped and/or killed in repeated attacks. This was declined by the majority because of the Jewish people's continued connection to our ancient homeland.
A two-state solution does require that the Palestinians clearly accept that Israel has the right to exist safely within whatever borders are negotiated. Otherwise, why would Israel cede territory to them? We've just seen what they do once Israel pulls out - they build an insane terrorist base inextricably intertwined with their civilian population and attack Israeli civilians whenever and however they can. So no, Israel won't cede any territory to them unless they make a compelling case that they will curb and control their crazies. Of course, Israel has to do the same to its crazies, and step 1 of that would be to throw Netanyahu out of government and put his right-wing nuts back in the fringes, where they belong.
Anyway, I hope you have a slightly better understanding of my position now.
