Reply #7: What would they talk about? [View All]

Hamas is clear that their goal is Israel's destruction and they've not only rejected peace deals like Oslo in the past but have tried to derail them by increasing terrorism strikes inside Israel. The peace deal you mentioned is not what Hamas wants and they are pretty vocal in their rejection of any comprehensive peace with Israel, ever.

And I have a problem with the assertion that if racism and hatred against Jews are caused by Israeli policy that it is Israel's fault. That Israel should take responsibility for this reaction and change their policies in an effort to better Arab views of Jews in general. If anti-Arab sentiment in the US is partly caused by Islamic fundamentalism would the answer be to ask fundamentalists to reform and hope that racism is quelled as a result? Racism isn't a rational process, trying to curb it by asking the targets themselves to change is not a reasonable solution. It is akin to saying, "Maybe Americans wouldn't hate Arabs so much if the Palestinains would stop blowing up buses."

Israeli policy should be based on what is best for Israel. Not based on influencing Arab's anti-semitic views of Jews in general. There was plenty, PLENTY of anti-semitism all over the world before Israel ever existed. The reason that no Jews live anywhere on earth except the US and Israel anymore is not because of anything Israel did.