The Palestinian Problem keeps surfacing when anyone suggests that Jews are not to blame for the problems of the Arab world. Somehow the Palestinians, who never were a country or a discrete people before they suddenly decided that they wanted to destroy Israel, are held up as victims. Every time a Palestinian terrorist is killed, someone claims innocent women and children also died. Well, sometimes they do, but that is something Israel cannot entirely avoid. Palestinians could avoid it, however, by not supporting terrorism and refraining from rocketing and bombing Israel.
Re the Palestinian "suffering," they are suffering because they embraced terrorism and refused to join decent world society. They weren't welcome anywhere, not in Jordan, not in Egypt, as they make such vicious pests of themselves wherever they go. If they can't find a Jew to bomb, they blow up a Jordanian.
All they would have to do to stop their own suffering is to stop rocketing and bombing Israel, and then they could prosper quite well by turning that energy toward trade and manufacturing and service provision. But no, they aren't really interested in solving their own problem and stopping their own suffering in poverty and violence. People who have claimed victimhood are always reluctant to give it up. They had the Oslo Accords and Camp David Accords and were offered territory and aid and could have long ago stopped the suffering and violence and poverty if ending such were their true goal, but the true goal is destroying Israel and they don't wish to give that up even at the cost of poverty and violence and deaths of innocents.
Reminds me of the patient I had: A man came into my office complaining of a headache. He had a large mallet in his hand and every 2 seconds he struck himself vigorously on the top of the head with it. I said, "I have good news. I have found the cause of your headache. Just stop hitting yourself on the head with the mallet."
The man replied, "No, doctor, I like hitting myself on the head with the mallet. I just want you to fix it so it doesn't hurt."
