Suppose Israel withdrew all occupation and removed all checkpoints now, how would Palestinians react?

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Mimi

Most Palestinians will be happy and will live peacefully. Some fanatics and you know whom I am speaking about would want to cause trouble. There are good people and bad people on both sides. Most Palestinians however want to live in peace. The only thing they want is a state they rule.

HopelessZ00

YA opinion polls: "palestinians would take the opportunity to run the israelies into the sea." "so they traveled the country and were jealous, jealous at what Israel accomplished." "They would most likely complain that they weren't all CEOs making a nice sized salary. And they would still try to "Push Israel into the sea" " They will strap the bombs to the children's, women bodies and ran across"

etc. etc. etc. In the end, the polls once again prove, there is no peace to be found in YA. Only hatred and racism. Maybe Peace will come when dooms day comes. Cheers!

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Some what, but there will still be hatred....

Have you ever been through those check points, being stopped every 10 minutes to have your car checked, and for proper ID to allow you in some cities while other areas you can't?

Sophia B

I think they would rejoice, but there would still be the issue of destroyed land and homes. In all likelihood, while peace will increase greatly, it will not be peace for all, as many Palestinians will still want more land, and virtually all Palestinians will still need aid.

I see withdrawal and removal of checkpoints not as the ultimate solution but as a major step to peace.

sparkle

i for one would be a lot happier,i suspect many of the idf would breath a sigh of relief,and the little matter of Palestinians being able to move around freely in their own country,so why does it continue?

Habib

Principally speaking they should no longer attack Israelies.

A splendid idea of course, but there's a gut feeling that probably some of them might not stop fighting.

Although I am not from ME but still responsed at Y!A gives me this gut feeling. Hopefully I might be having a wrong impression.

PEACE is the only thing!

Mr. X

as you well know, israel DID withdraw its occupation from gaza and the palestinians reacted by electing hamas and sending rockets into your city and sderot daily.

there's no reason to believe a withdrawal from the west bank would be any different.

Galahad

Impossible to say,but if I had suffered at the hands of oppressors as they have,I would immediately leap at the opportunity to achieve freedom.

mark

Yes it will bring peace to both people.
Israel withdraw from Gaza without any negotiations with PA.

AnLoDeah

Blow us up. Shoot us Dead. Throw missils on Tel Aviv. Or at least they would try.

Israel would become one big Sderot.

Look what happened after we withdrew from Gaza strip.

No peace.

Just more missils.

MBC

Not necessarily. There would have to be many other political and economic considerations addressed. If the blasted settlements were gone, then atleast it would be possible to remove all of the checkpoints not contigious to Israel itself and most people could live a somewhat normal life. If Israel is really serious about peace, it should be helping to promote a healthy civil society and economic viability within the territories. When people find new alternatives to their current situation, and above all, HOPE that there can be a peaceful and prosperous future based on co-existence, reactionary and violent forces will lose their strength. But it is really a multi-faceted approach that needs to be implemented, not just a removal of checkpoints.

In fact, the situation could easily become worse by doing so, through increased attacks and counterattacks, if other aspects of the larger problem are not addressed concurrently. But the really bitter pill to swallow is that even if Israel really does sincerely try its best to deal with the Palestinians in a way that addresses their fundamental rights and makes many compromises or changes to its policies in favor of the Palestinians, there will be the threat of violence from certain elements for a long time. Too much pain has been inflicted for it all to come to a guaranteed halt.

And groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad have ideological underpinnings to their struggle which cannot necessarily be addressed by compromise alone. However, if these groups lose popular support through the promotion of HOPE by Israeli actions, they can cry until the cows come home, but not necessarily inflict much damage if they lose membership and support among Palestinians and the larger Arab and Muslim world.

Same way they reacted when Israel left Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians will immediately run to the Israeli border begging to be given refugee status.

Palestinians will start shooting rockets into Israel blowing up innocent people.

aldonbonn

u mean they would attack israel?
of course no!

Cool Breeze

The same way jews reacted when the British withdrew in 1948. They would declare independence and fight their war of independence,and most of the world would support them because times have changed.

Andrew

peace

holybagelgrl

all occupation meaning their homes. would you let someone just come to ur house claim they own it and take u to court saying you stole it from them even after you show them the deed to your house and all the legal papers showing that you own it. israel was given its indeopendance to be a jewish state. it was a majority vote by the un. and secondly those checkpoints are there to protect israel. they have to stop every arab to check them because of what the arabs have done in the past. do you know how mnany suicide bombers are stopped a day because of those checkpoints. and you know what if israel removes those checkpoints id love for america to remove the border crssing checkkpoint between it and mexico. and no matter how much loand you give the palestenians even iof all the jews were to move onto a boat and give them all of israel they still would not be satisfied and would want the boat as well.

Robsanjani

What are you saying, this is not a realistic question, the old generation is gone, the new has nowhere to go.
Borders were open for a long time after the 67 war, so they traveled the country and were jealous, jealous at what Israel accomplished.
Now if Egypt opened it's borders, that would be a different situation.

Pazit.

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I highly doubt they would establish a democracy. They established Hamas, who are as far from a democracy as you could possibly go.

stygianwolfe

No,they would want more,annihalation of the infidels.

Wolf

they would then want more land and the fighting would continue until they are all dead or they have beaten and killed all Israelis.

Obama Happends

They will strap the bombs to the children's, women bodies and ran across

NYC Chutzpah

They would most likely complain that they weren't all CEOs making a nice sized salary. And they would still try to "Push Israel into the sea" :(

shadyshinobi

Maybe.

Or maybe Israel would be destroyed internally.

See the problem?

iameJPAJDL

The pals,not all would be 'violently' happy,over-run Israel & try to throw Jews & all non muslims into the sea..

Yesterday,Hamas struck the beautiful seaside city of Ashkelon killing over 15 civilians ,injuring 60 or more..Not even mentioning the daily quaasams hitting Sderot..

The checkpoints should only be removed when the terrorists stop bombing Israel & seriously want to live in peace..

Prayers to G-D for the ones killed/injured & condolences to their families..

Never Again!

Shalom

Morgan S

I would predict wide spread confusion amongst the Arab 'leadership' with an unfortunate and deadly consequence.

Bosco

I personally would hope they would seize the opportunity to overthrow the zionist government an establish a democracy.

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