Biden now calling for Israel to pause???

[Dill]

(11-07-2023, 02:18 PM)pally Wrote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”-Albert Einstein
it applies to all sides in this conflict.   However, the problem is no one wants the change to come from their side.  It all has to come from the other.

You are being naive here. There can be no "compromise" with Israel that involves the restoration of Palestinian rights and homes.

That would mean taking down the barbed wire and barriers, returning homes seized from civilians by state violence, 
and either integrating Palestinians into one comprehensive state (ending Israel's identity as an ethnic state) 
or the creation of two separate states, giving the Palestinian state full autonomy, 
which they would most certainly use to establish a "right of return" for all refugees, 
doubling or tripling their population within 10 years.

Also, one side did risk changing first. Ask the PLO how that turned out. 

Given the massive power imbalance, only one side can really effect change.
Any construction of this conflict which reduces it to a mirror image of intransigence on both sides 
fundamentally misreads its root cause and nature.