The Gaza Palestinians have lost the war. To be exact they lost it in the late 1940's when the state of Israel was created by 'the world' and hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide sailed, rode, or walked to the new state of Israel.
It is time for Palestine to re-think their options. Israel is a member state of the UN, the same body that worked with Europe, the West, and the world to make Israel a state...and exactly where it is. The Palestinians are not UN members (ok...they have a UN observer, but that was just a nice touch, a gimme, from the UN).
The land that is Israel is not going back to Palestinian hands, except through purchase or marriage. It will never go back due to a threat, a mortar, a missile, a suicide belt, or anything. The war is over. The reality of war must sink in at the individual Palestinian level.
There is no 'right of return'. The land is gone, just as Rome was sacked and the land was taken, just as when Alexander the Great sacked Asia, just as the Europeans sacked North and South America.
There are no do-overs in history. (except for the ones we give the poor hapless Arab...read on...)
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