Why do you think that absorbing Palestinians would have solved it ?
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.
The reason for the status quo is because Arabic nations of the Middle East refused to take in Palestinians and deliberately placed them in refugee camps to use them as pawns to warn the world until Israel is removed tthes ePaletsinians will be kept in this camps as hostages. That is public knowledge openly explained by the Arab alliance when it imprisoned these Palestinians in the cmaps. Israel did not imprison them the Arab alliance did-the same Arab alliance whose decision was to try eradicate all Jews from Palestine and prevent it from having a Jewish state which led to the displacement of certain but not all Palestinians. Those Palestinians that did not leave became Israeli citizens, and to this day choose not to give up their Israeli citizenship and live a higher standard of living than Muslims do in Muslim states.
The decision for Palestinians to leave where Israel became after 1949 was their choice pushed by the Arab League. The definition of Palestinian used today only came about in 1967 after Arafat failed to assassinate Hussein and take over Jordan.
Jordan was illegally create dout of 85% of Palestine as a Palestinian state. It gave all Palestinians automatic citizenship and to this day will not give any Jewish Palestinian citizenship. Palestinians today are descendants of people who have moved to the West Bank who are not Palestinian as well as descendants of Palestinians who were never displaced from Israel. Palestinians are the only refugees defined in the world the way they are. Every refugee in the world must himself or herself be displace dhysically by war to be called a refufee. A Palestinian can mean anyone who CLAIMS but does not have to prove, they are descended from a Palestinain displaced in the 1949 war as long as they are not a Jew. There is no objective test. All you have to do is say you are Palestinian and you care called one.
Hamas believes all of today's Israel, West Bank and Jordan should be a Sharia law Sunni Muslim state as part of the first stage of a world government led by a Muslim council and teaches Jews need to be wiped off the planet. Read their charter and listen to their speeches.
As well the so called Palestinian Authority supports violence and terror as a means to achieve a country and also believeds all of Israel, the West Bank and Jordan should be ruled by it in a Sharia Law Muslim state.
Neither of these movements will or has ever recognized the right of Israel to be a JEWISH state because they believe states in the Middle East can only be Sharia law Muslim states and no Jew is allowed to own land or have a country or have equal rights to Muslims, anywhere in the world, not just the Middle East.
The status quo is a collective belief enforced by Hamas and the PA as well as Arab alliance that no Muslim can ever recognize a non Muslim Jewish state in Israel.
Had Palestinians after 1949 been made nationals of Jordan and the Arab alliance of nations recognized the Jewish state of course there would be no current issue.
Why would you need to ask why using Palestinians as hostages to blackmail the world into getting rid of Israel is at the root of the conflict?
Just read the rhetoric on this forum from anti Israelis using their script that holocaust survivors escaping Europe to Israel or escaping Muslim persecution in Arab countries to Israel are colonialist invaders.
Read the script that if Jews have a nation that is racist but if Muslims have nations its not. Read how Israel is apartheid when it offers all the rights no Jew has in an Arab country and how Jews in Muslim countries live in bantu lands, segregated ghettos forced on them because they are dhimmi, second class inferiors unable to own land or enjoy the same rights as Muslims. The rhetoruic won't call Muslim states bigoted or anti-semitic or engaging in the very apartheid they accuse Israel of.
The status quo is a double standard promulgated throughout the Middle East by Muslim nations who do not separate Islam from the government teaching that Jews are an evil that must be wiped from the earth. The status quo in the Middle East is to define Jews as a vile enemy.
The status quo in the Middle East are military dictatorships and/or fundamentalist Muslim regimes where no human rights or democratic institutions exist.
Israel established its status quo in 1949 as a direct result of an usuccessful attempt by the Arab council of nations to commit genocide on Middle East Jews in the remaining 10% of Palestine the British didn't illegally turn into a Palestinian state.
The status quo is the Arab nations and Palestinians today pretending Jordan is not a Palestinian state and in fact they want a second one because this is not about leiving peacefully next door to Israel, its about wiping it out as a Jewish state.
The status quo is the collective Arab mindset that Israel needs to be wiped out and the Arab world clings to it the way Christians for thousands of years clinged to the concept that Jews killed Jesus and therefore all their descendants should suffer to hell unless they convert.
The sttaus quo is prevalent and entrenched anti semitism learned through Islamic preachings which mutated and mixed with HNazi and Russian anti semitism to form what it is today and is considered acceptable by both trendy eftists and extreme neo Nazi right wingers.
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