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Individual humans have a choice. Societies, within a political and economic context, have incentives and tendencies.

My question to you was essentially: what is the most reasonable expectation you have of a population of millions of people living under the conditions that the Palestinians are living under. It’s usually hard to do this because we’ve been trained to think in reductive tribal terms, this is why I asked you to imagine a bunch of Americans living under those conditions. Please try and do that, imagine millions of random Americans in those conditions for 60 years. If you tell me that you would expect that all those people would accept that they will be forever under the rule of a state that will never give them rights; that most of them won’t feel animosity towards that state; that none of them would be radicalized; that none of them would turn to revolt and violence… then this conversation would be settled.

I’m not trying to adjudicate “who” is to blame. I’m trying to determine “what” conditions cause conflict.

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