That is what I have heard forever as well. But on deeper inspection, the issue is with all the Palestinians that fled after the first war and were never allowed back into the land Israel took / where they lived inside 1948 Israel.  Now I can make sense of that because 700k-1M + people that don’t really like Israel living in Israel is something I don’t think would work out?  But the false narrative that “why don’t the other Arab countries take them in” keeps propagating.  The Palestinians are nothing like the surrounding Arab Nations.  We will never know what would have happened if everyone accepted the 1948 borders and UN agreement.  

But here we are.  And make no mistake. The Likud and conservative Israeli population wants to get rid of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.  They aren’t going about it like Hamas does against Israel, but there are bad things happening to innocent people in Gaza and the West Bank by Israelis.  

I wish it were as simple as Palestinians lay down their arms. But we live in the real world and something must really be done to bring the Palestinians out of the dumpster they are in for them to live in peace. 

 The Palestinians could prosper if they accepted any of the multiple offers for their own State. They would have endless support from the International community to ensure their prosperity.  

They've rejected every single offer.  They completely reject the idea of a Jewish State in present day Israel.  They deny 3,000 years of Jewish heritage and history in the Holy Land.  They deny that Jews have always been there.  

Until they accept that Israel is not going anywhere, they'll continue their misery. 

 They rejected the Israeli state in present day Israel And 1948 boundaries. I so want to believe that if they just accept it, all will be great. It sounds too simple.  

They need great leaders and the ability / resources and global support to use their demographics to educate themselves to be a prosperous nation (like Singapore).  

It truly saddens me that with all the aid and resources they receive, they tend to spend it on (or maybe instead of receiving aid, they receive) missiles, tunnels, etc. instead of things that will help them get out of poverty. 

Maybe I am being idealistic and they are being kept down in the dumps by Israel and the West as well as their “friendly neighbors” like Iran.  

If it were as simple as saying, “if they just accepted Israel as a State” we would have peace, then why don’t we have peace in Ukraine or elsewhere?  There are always plenty of bad actors and mobs / crowd mentality make it worse.