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The Palestinian position is purposefully ambivalent but at the same time all roads lead to the same goal.
One one side there is the demand for the establishment of the Palestinian State within the pre 1967 borders of Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza. This demand is inexorably tied to a right of return to Israel proper for millions for descendants of Palestinians refugees. The goal is to establish a adjacent hostile state with indefensible borders and the removal of the Jewish presence from the old city, as it was from 1948-1967. Simultaneously, the right of return is designed to challenge the Jewish demographic majority in Israel until it can be brought down from both the inside and the outside.
On the other side is the belief that a Jewish state in Palestine is an inherently criminal endeavor based on theft and colonialism. The illegitimacy of Israel means that it has no right of self defense. It also means that attacks on Israel can not be illegal or immoral because oppressed, indigenous people have limitless rights to resist. The plan is to provoke Israel into responding to intolerable levels of violent harassment while accepting vastly asymmetrical losses as a form of propaganda warfare. The goal is to sway international opinion sufficiently to isolate and sanction Israel out of existence, eventually creating a single Palestinian state with a Jewish minority that can be easily subjugated.
Just one man's take on things...
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