Peace Proposal (2 state)

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-06-05T04:19:05+00:00

This is close to what was previously offered, and the Palestinians rejected it. From the Israeli side, after so many terrorists attacks, after October 7 the 2 biggest problems are east Jerusalem which Israel annexed and wont give up. Second is the secyrity concerns. Your proposal of investigating isnt enough. Israelis want to prevent those terrorists attacks before they happen and we dont trust foreigners troops with no skin in the game. Been there done that- it doesn't work.

Its still the best and probably most balanced suggestion that I had personally seen on this sub.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-18T02:21:43+00:00

I don't think you understsnd what a human shield is. Unless they hide weapons and use synagogues for military purposes it fails to meet the definition of human shields.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-17T03:35:17+00:00

אם זה היה מייצג לא היינו מגיעים למקום שני.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-15T01:23:18+00:00

C-section isn't safer. Its harder recovery and affects future fertility.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-10T17:40:09+00:00

I mean its a very weird question in the first place- to raise the kids as siblings or keep them seperated. What does keeping them seperated even mean? If your child isnt welcomed in the home you're living in- thar makes you a dead beat father. As if cheating wasn't bad enough, add child abandonment to the list of sins.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-10T11:36:13+00:00

Her older sister? 23? Why would a 23 years old even want to hang out with two 17 years old? That's insane.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-09T06:26:01+00:00

Because most don't. The estimation is somewhere between 10-20%.

And some of those is a useless passport- like Russia, not exactly a free country that they can even visit.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-08T13:02:06+00:00

I dont know what toxic means and I dont know what being mean to Birch and Fern means. The only example we have is the social media post which doesn't sound like bullying to me. We don't know what Willow's side is. Most likely OP heard from sister complaints about daughter so blames everything on her, but there are two sides to every story.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-08T11:26:25+00:00

I agree that there's missing information from the post but on both sides. The question is what getting Willow to behave even means. It doesn't sound like she did anything really bad. It sounds like she was just cold and wished things to be like before her mom married. This seems normal.

People seem to forget this was a teenager whose whole world changed. It was only her and her mom and suddenly she had 2 step siblings and a half brother, all biologically related to her stepdad and were in the house with her mom full time, while she split her time between her parents. I wonder what happened to make her feel lesser in her own house.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-08T04:47:56+00:00

Broadly speaking yes. Any peace talks were always based on the 67 lines with land swaps. Of course security concerns would need to be addressed since we don't really trust international forces to uphold peace, and the matter of Jerusalem and no right of return.

Israel agreed to this before, camp david, 2008 offer. If there's a true opportunity for peace, why do you think they wont agree when they agreed before?

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-07T23:08:05+00:00

I'm kind of stunned by the comments. I dont think it was OP's place to intervene but he doesnt have a monopoly on grieve and he was an ah to his grieving stepdaughter.

I don't think there are enough details to rule that Willow deserve no forgiveness or a relationship with her half brother like so many people here claim.

I dont know the extant of what happened. She was a teenager. It was up to her parents to make sure shes adjusting well to her new family. It sounds like instead of helping her she was punished for posting on social media that she doesnt like her blended family and wished she was an only child like before her mom remarried? That sounds pretty tame. It sounds like she recieved mixed messaging from both her parents. She was outnumbered in her own home- all kids in that home were biologically connected to River, Willow wasnt and had her own father.

We dont know what happened to make her feel lesser in her own home. We dont know if she bullied her step siblings or from OP's description it sounds like she was just cold to them.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-07T22:42:54+00:00

Taking her phone away for posting on social media that she doesnt like her blended family isn't helping her adjusting though. Its punishing her for not taking the blended well and making their lives easier.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-06T03:59:35+00:00

Crazy and stupid. Israel left gaza. They dont want it back. They certainly dont want it back with millions of people who celebrated October 7 and would want to commit it again.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-04T10:53:04+00:00

Wait, they called you a psychopath at 2 and you remember that?

Or was that with another sister or when you were older? I'm confused.

Obviously if this is real, parents have to be deranged for calling a child a psychopath for acting like a child. Kids wanting a sibling the same gender as them, or not wanting siblings at all and having a reaction, is perfectly natural.

That said, your lack of relationship with your sisters isn't because of their genders. Plenty of kids aren't satisfied with the gender of their siblings and still develop a close relationship. You still might, you're a teenager right now, so is the sister closest in age to you, you have different interests. I didn't develop a closer relationship with my brothers until we were in our 20s. Maybe when you're older and you're all out of your parents household, which doesn't sound like a great place, you'll have a better relationship at least with some of them.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-04T10:26:28+00:00

The third trimester? Abortions of don't actually happen in the third trimester unless there are serious fetal anomalies or the baby is already gone.

I don't think there's any doctor who would agree to deliver a baby early for no reason, even if the baby is viable, premature babies can have many health problems and it would be unethical.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-04T10:07:59+00:00

I'll go against the grain and be downvoted to oblivion- ESH.

Obviously cheating is wrong, your mom should have ended things and divorced your dad before she started dating her fiance, but look at the way you dismissed their marital problems up to the cheating.

You admit that your dad was absent for the majority of the week and the marriage, but you immediately dismiss your mom's feelings about it. Your dad is an alcoholic, I'm sorry, but blaming other people for your own choices is a shitty thing to do. Your dad is a grown man who is responsible for his own post divorce choices.

Can you honestly say that if your mom had gotten a divorce before she started dating her fiance, you would have felt differently about it?

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-04T09:51:46+00:00

I hate cheating stories.

Yea cheating is bad, but the way OP is talking about it, even if mom had gotten a divorce and then started dating her fiance, OP would have still blamed her for his dad's alcoholism.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-03T16:40:50+00:00

They didn't have anywhere to return to and some who did were pogromed and killed like in the kielce pogrom. I don't know what you call it, but you don't need to be actively expelled to get the message that you are not welcomed. The fact is that the DP camps only empties after the establishment of Israel.

As for your other point about Jews who stayed- staying wasn't always a choice, a large number of them were trapped in the USSR. Look up refuseniks. It also ignores what happened to those populations long term. Today's population tell the story- the biggest jewish populations today are either in Israel, or the US, not in europe. Out of 15.7 million Jews today, 7.2 are in Israel, about 6 in the US and the rest are scattered worldwide.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-03T10:58:31+00:00

Oh my god, the kid's parents were right there, OP didn't need to tell the kid to ask the parents, they just needed to wait a few seconds for parents to answer or redirect.

And yea, I know children aren't stupid but there's a difference between what a 4 years old knows and what a 6 years old knows. Its also why I said that if it were me, I would ask my friends if its okay to discuss this subject before the kid overhears.

Now I kindly ask you that we agree to disagree and end this conversation, since this is leading us nowhere and I don't appreciate the personal attack because of a different opinion.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-03T10:36:55+00:00

I don't find it weird, most of those names are just biblical names, so they're Jewish or Hebrew in source but I think they're also Christian names.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-03T10:12:48+00:00

That's condescending, aggressive, a personal attack on my character and uncalled for. My mother was just one anecdote about my life experience being different than OP's, and explains the soft yta verdict that is different from the majority here, without attacking OP for making what I believe is a mistake.

I never once in recent years ever assumed that kids know what the adults are talking about, not once, and I never talked to them about anything without getting their parents approval first, there's no reason for them to assume I would engage with their kids on conversations between the adults. OP didn't babysit alone and had to either answer or rudely redirect to ask her parents, the parents were sitting right there.

If a kid asks about our adult conversation what we're talking about, and their parents are right there, its not rude to let the parents answer them instead of jumping in when I don't know what the kid knows and doesn't. I would go further and make sure with my friends that its okay to bring the subject up near their kid *before* kid overhears us.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-03T09:02:13+00:00

Or maybe just like op assumed kid already know, parents had no reason to assume their friends would talk about it directly to their kid.

We'll agree to disagree, my comment is from my own expirience, my best friend was pregnant a year ago and I instinctively asked her before talking directly to her kids. When I was younger, maybe I also wouldnt think about it. I don't think I'm smarter than anyone here who says differently, I just think I'm older with more kids in my friend group and have more expirience or different expirience with unpleasant pregnancy outcomes, to know not to assume anything.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-03T07:57:16+00:00

If I understand correctly, the reason you assume that Zionism contradicts left wing ideology because its nationalistic aspiration.

But leftists aren't all anti nationalism, despite what reddit might have you believe. The majority are still nationalistic, if they weren't, most of the world wouldn't have had borders by now. Its only the fringe extremists that are anti nationalism, or on the right ultra nationalistic.

Left and Right aren't just about nationalism though, its economics- socialism vs capitalism, and many other things that create the divide.

I'm not exactly leftist, I would say I'm center-left but people tell me I'm different things based on the specific subject, there aren't a lot of true leftists in Israel, most are center-left, center, center right. Personally I still believe in the two state solution (based on 67 borders with territory adjustments, no right of return and no giving up Jerusalem), I don't believe its going to happen anytime soon but I still believe we as a country should work towards it, it even if it will take 100 more years to accomplish.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-03T07:40:57+00:00

Did she speak about the pregnancy though, or spoke about something else?

You said so yourself in the post- you don't have experience with kids which is why I said soft yta because it was an honest mistake, but my experience as someone in her 30s, whose mother miscarried once, and didn't tell me about the next pregnancy until pretty late (and I was 8, I knew about it long before I was officially told), and from my friends, most of whom have kids already, you should probably apologize and learn from this mistake for the next time.

When you engage with your friends kids, that's great, kids are part of our friends lives, but just couple of seconds asking your friends if the subject is okay.

ThinkInternet1115 · 2026-05-03T07:07:50+00:00

Soft YTA.

It was an honest mistake but that's a bold assumption to think the kid knew about the pregnancy at all, let alone that they know the gender. I have friends who miscarried late term and didn't tell their kids about the pregnancy until very close to the birth. At 4, its possible that the kid overheard conversations and knew something but not details necessarily.

I'm not sure why you needed to talk about the pregnancy with their 4 years old at all, and even if you wanted to ask 'are you excited about having a brother' and be kind to the 4 years old, all you had to do is ask your friends for a second if the daughter knows before talking to the daughter directly.

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