I believe that this conflict would have faded away generations ago had the neighboring countries absorbed the displaced Palestinians into their own populations. But that wasn't permitted, because the political agenda was not to help Palestinians displaced from Israel, it was to keep them separate and segregated for the purpose of reclaiming ownership of Israel under an Arab banner.
Why do you think that absorbing Palestinians would have solved it ?
It seems to me that these descendants of Palestinians are being punished because of their ancestry, essentially incarcerated, denied the chance to start new lives in their new locations for no reason other than having male ancestors who were displaced from their homelands when Israel was created. What had been a number of several hundred thousand at the time is now somewhere around ten times that... people for the most part born and raised in captivity as pawns in a political struggle. They've been segregated from their current host countries for the purpose of recolonizing Israel, which is expressly antagonistic to Israel's ongoing existence.
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The status quo exists for a reason. Nobody wants this but it's better than the alternative. And Israel can game the Palestinians into in-fighting, baiting and generally stagnating forever.
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