We both live in a field owned by Mr. X. A bunch of your friends live in the surrounding fields. At one time, Mr. X decides to split our field and give each of us a piece. As I try to build a house, your friends tell you not to worry, they have a plan to get you ALL of the field and attack me.
Easy, they ignore their concerns. Instead of having to deal with their neighbors diplomatically, if the other side wants change all Israel does is say "no" since they do not need to listen to them.
That tends to happen when you take over a countries land.
There is no doubt Israel needed help to begin with, after all they were essentially invaders.
However the U.S has not weaned them off the teat, and as such they are not independent. It is like having a big brother backing you up constantly, you will not learn how to deal with your peers without him.
My cousin is traped their right now and she said they are droping peices of paper on the places they are going to bomb for a warning. However, i doubt it does much.
The problem with terrorists is that they are civilians. If you target the civilian who just shot a rocket at innocent people, don't you think the terrorists are going to say that you targeted a civilian?
So, since the change that the other side wants, and has wanted for nearly 60 years, is for Israel to completely disappear off the map, Israel should pay attention to them and agree to that desire? Trust me. They are paying attention to that desire but they are not likely to agree to it.
You might think about learning some history. Israel did not start off as invaders. Their have been Jews living there since Biblical times. The country that won the land after World War I divided the land between the two sides. The one side agreed to take a portion. The other side said they would accept nothing less than all of it. The side that wouldn't take less than all of it kept deciding that they wanted to eradicate the other side in war and kept losing.
What country got taken over? In 1947 when Israel was created, there was no Palestine either. They didn't steal the country. Israel was created, based on the existing enclaves of predominantly Jewish communities from the British Mandate. There was no nation of Palestine, no Palestinian gov't, not a whole lot of anything really. To say Israel 'took over' Palestine is factually incorrect.
And I agree, we have not weaned them because to do so would put them at a disadvantage compared to the amount of money and weapons that flow into their adversary's hands. What you're advocating would create the exact same situation you're complaining about in reverse.
So why don't the 'innocents' turn them in instead of sheltering Hezbollah? Or could it be that the gang/thug analogy applied to Hezbollah is appropriate, in which case you'd think the oppressed and frightened 'innocents' would be glad to have the Israelis remove the threat.
And then the U.N decided to split the land, the one side agreed as they would be happy to get anything since they didn't really have a claim.
The other side disagreed since they felt the land was rightfully theirs(they were correct, however this doesn't matter as Israel is now there and you cannot solve problems by living in the past.
What country got taken over from the Native Americans? It is the same situation, simply because it wasn't a unified country doesn't mean much. Israel was founded primarily by foreigners not by those who lived there to begin with.
Slowly cutting our aid to Israel would not result in them being overwhelmed by the surrounding countries, it would result in them having to deal with those countries with diplomacy rather than force.