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Israel has surely some responsabilities in the Middle East conflict simply because it's one of the parts involved directly in it and surely it has made political mistakes and violence excesses against Palestinians.
Also the Arabian Countries and, above all Palestinians, have also made many political mistakes of intransigence towards Israel.

About Israel, it has made and still is making the mistake of being too diffident and hostile also with the moderate part of Palestinians, making too little concessions about the status of Gaza Strip and Cis-Jordan.

So, the moderate Palestinians represented by Al-Fatah Party couldn't weigh up more concrete results and concessions from Israel, so reducing the role and arrogance of the extremists of Hamas, now ruling the government, after their victory at the elections.
Also in this situation, Israel should keep and increase a dialogue with the moderate of Al-Fatah, to insulate the extremists.

Then, another big mistake was, in 2001, the famous walk of Ariel Sharon, then minister of Yehud Barak conservative government, in the square of Jerusalem mosque, causing the violent and long Palestinian riot of Intifada, a sort of guerrilla in all the areas occupated in 1967 and burying definitively the peace process with Palestinians, started in the early 1990's.
Sharon has been an extremist too, during all his life, being of the extreme right and a former general of Tsahal, the army of Israel.
and extremists make always mistakes, that of exaggeration and intransigence.
But even Sharon, in the last months of his life, before the ictus that has reduced him in coma, has been able to make important steps towards peace, withdrawing Tsahal from Gaza Strip.

Israel has the right to exist, just there where it is now, because that has always been the land of the Jewish, despite the many occupations and invasions, from the Romans to the Arabians and Turkish, until the colonial English regime of the last century.

The wars that Israel has fought till now were legitimate by the need of defending its existence from real attacks, but, the first occupation of the South of Lebanon in 1982 has been a mistake, not being resolutive against the extremist Palestinian refugees attacking Israel just from Lebanon and allowing the massacre of Palestinians refugees in Sabra and Chatila camps, performed by the Christian militias, allied of Israel.

Also the recent new war in Lebanon has been a partial mistake, not because Hezbollah have won it, but because Israel has not used enough military forces to reach a fast and complete victory on the terrorists of Hezbollah that have abused of Lebanese territory for their attacks on Israel and because Israel has hit too much the civilians and the whole Lebanon, although in the zones inhabited by Sciites and Palestinian refugees, only because these are politically by the side of Hezbollah, but not directly involved in it.

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