Palestinians: If Israel left the West Bank and Gaza, would there be peace with Israel? 

It seems clear to me that a majority of Palestinians don't want to live in peace as long as Israel exist. That makes any solution impossible. It's irrational and stupidly stubborn, but it also clearly demonstrates the root of the current situation.

As an Israeli it is so depressing to see that there is no peace in the foreseeable future

It's amazing how all these people point to Israel's treatment of Palestinians, while completely failing to mention Hamas' treatment of Palestinians, the very government they elected for themselves.

Sometimes I get a feeling like people are quick to blame the strong and support the underdog, without even trying to understand which side is the problematic side

The young people don't want the two state solution and the old people are sick of the violence and want peace. That is what I observed.

As an Israeli who has voted consistently in the past two decades for left wing pro peace parties, this is seriously depressing. My assumption always that a compromise is possible, and no amount of blood is worth any peace of land - that there is a possibility of having two prosperous nations side by side, which respect each other. This video raises serious question marks over that - If Palestinians will never accept any solution where Israelis are still here, what am I expected to do? My grandparents were born here, all my family was born here, where are we to go? What other option do they leave us other than to use our power to protect ourselves? What reason should I have to continue to vote for parties that support a two state solution? So sad

This conflict is not about land. It is a conflict born out of hatred for Israel.

The thing that's so depressing is that "how can we forget all they did to us", that sentiment is kinda implying that they didn't do anything wrong themselves, like starting the initial war in '48, starting the 6 day war, starting the first and second gazan war, all the bus bombings they did, all the rockets shot towards israel from hamas, the recent massacre, etc, etc, etc. A lot of what the conflict is today is their own making.

conclusion: there will never be peace out there, just periods of lesser violence and more intense violence.

The scary thing is that the younger generation who grew up since Oslo who went to schools run by the Palestinian Authority have much more extreme views than the older people in this video. One of the cornerstones of the Oslo agreement was that both sides were supposed to educate towards peace, this seems to be proof that the PA did the exact opposite.

It's amazing how they cannot even comprehend the question. Peace is so far from their minds.

Israel : we want peace and ready for 2 state solution Palestinian: no peace with israel it's all ours The world: it's Israel's fault

Israel already left Gaza. And there is no peace

They have rejected a two state solution FIVE times. Famed diplomat Abba Eban said “ they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity”

I've watched a lot of interviews with Palestinians and came to the realization that there would never be peace in this region, especially since October 7. Palestinians don't want peace. This is a sad but inevitable situation.

Summary of the survey's majority of the public: "we would forgive them and stop trying to kill them if they stop existing"

It seems that only older generation of Palestinians is ready to make peace with Israel. That's so sad because usually it's the younger generation that decides people's future.

If Israelis are able to share Israel with Israeli Arabs why are Palestinians so incapable of sharing their state with Jews? There is something missing in this conversation -- the intolerance and bigotry of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the overall hatred towards Jews in the Muslim world. Hopefully they will grow.

This is proof that the “settlements” are not the obstacle to peace. It’s the stubbornness of certain people.

Interesting that it's the older people who seem more accepting of peace between 2 states.

I went to college in the U.S. which had a strong social justice culture, and the majority of people had very liberal views. As a leftist, I tended to agree with people on most issues, but as an Israeli it never stopped bothering me how they viewed the Palestinian cause as parallel to other movements for equality like the civil rights movement, in that they saw the Palestinians as fundamentally peaceful people trying to free themselves from an oppressor. Clubs like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jews for Justice for Palestinians hosted lectures and activities which constantly reinforced this (false) narrative. Because of it, many Americans in my school had in mind that if Israel simply 'ended the occupation', there will be peace. I used to argue with them that it is not what the Palestinian people want, only for them to disagree with me as if it is a subjective matter what the Palestinians want. I wish I could show them this video.

I cannot understand how you can both feel opressed by someone and at the same time demand from them to remove themselves. My brain just cannot process this. Its as if diplomacy or a compromise doesn't exist in their thinking. Its as a if big mascular guy approached you and you thought he wants to beat you up, but he would say no no its ok we can be fine but your response would be: Oh no actually we cant, we will be ok only if i beat the shit out of you and you procced to start kicking him and then cry every time he punches back. This is Palestian. So sad.

The name Palestine came to be used in the 2nd century AD, before it was called Kingdom of Judea and Israel. There has never been an independent state called Palestine, it was always a province from different Empires. Jews were refugees for almost 2000 years, they both have the same DNA Jews and Palestinians, even the Quran says that the Jews are Natives of the land. Both are Natives of the land, but if these people live in denial, if they want a one state solution they should forgive, love, be inclusive and share their land. But I guess they are million years away from being that self aware.

I'm sure others are thinking the same, but unable to put it in words: It's absurd how the world goes on and on about how Israel is the main obstacle to peace for not giving the Palestinians the entire West Bank and Gaza. It's absurd that content like this exists and gets shared, but not noticed and acknowledged. Content which you would think would be the missing proof that Palestinians will not accept peace even if they got "their" two-state solution. And I put "their" in quotation marks, as it is not they, the Palestinians, who want the two-state solution-it is the world which blindly clings on to an illusion of a simple black-and-white solution, in which there's one bad side and one good side. The big and powerful and the easy-to-love underdog. As frustrating as it is, it's not more complex than a lot of people not being able to live with the fact that things are not black and white; that there's not always an easy solution; and that the underdog is NOT always in the right just because he is suffering.

Very depressing but at least we hear them talking truthfully what they think of peace, without the manipulation that is going on in the media today on the conflict.

I love how they think that Israelis will just leave the place and all the things they did will now just belong to them.

Right after World War II there were two separate efforts to recognize and accommodate the right of a vulnerable religious minority to self-determination in the form of a sovereign state, as follows: (1) To accommodate the right of Muslims to self-determination in the Indian subcontinent, the British partitioned India by creating a new country, the Muslim state of Pakistan, despite the vehement objections of Indian leaders such as Ghandi and Nehru; and (2) the UN produced, a plan to partition the area west of the Jordan River to accommodate the right of Jews to self-determination by creating the state of Israel despite the objections of Arabs and Muslims. The creation of Pakistan resulted in the shifting of millions of refugees (Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan, and Muslims from India to Pakistan), and in the deaths of several hundreds of thousands and perhaps even a million people. The creation of Israel, or at least the war started by the Arab states who rejected the UN plan, resulted in a far lesser shifting of population and loss of life than the creation of Pakistan. 70 years later, the Hindus and Sikhs forced out of their ancient homelands to accommodate Muslim self-determination have for the most part moved on, and almost no one protests the massive disruption of population and loss of life that accompanied the creation of Pakistan and the accommodation of Muslim self-determination. However, some people who accept that disruption as a necessary cost to achieve Muslim self-determination view the much smaller disruptions necessary to accommodate Jewish self-determination as an unthinkable crime. Jews have lived continuously and without interruption throughout the Middle East for approximately 3,000 years, and there were Jewish communities in places like Morocco, Tunis, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran hundreds of years before Islam existed. Hundreds of thousands of Jews from those countries were forced to flee those countries when the State of Israel was created. Those who deny the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish State in some tiny slice of the Middle East, but accept the deaths and refugees created by the Partition of India to create the Muslim State of Pakistan, are being very selective to the point of hypocrisy.

If they would completely leave then yes we will agree to have peace with them... With WHOM? With air? Smh 🤦‍♂️

Just to make it clear, Israel has offered 2 states solutions during Barak and Olmert times. Israel also wanted to give them east Jerusalem as their capital. The Palestinians not only said no, they didn’t made any counter offer. If the world wants peace, it should stop setting more and more pressure on Israel, and instead - start to pressure the Palestinians side on just saying YES. (Egypt accepted Israel after 1973 war, and got back a land that is bigger than Israel itself) That’s it.

One problem with this question: Israel already HAS left Gaza. No soldiers are stationed, and Sharon dismantled and destroyed any Israeli settlements that were there 15 years ago. The only Israelis that are in Gaza are the prisoners that were captured.

It's very sad to see most of those people cannot even imagine peace. I have no clue how to deal with that.

I was demonstrating with Palestinians all my life, i was jailed for them. Now i saw all the videos from the 7/10 massacare and the sheer cruelty of Hamas, but also their simple citizens and the enormty of my pain and anger for my murdered friends is just beyond. We Isralies are not ok, yet the world thinks we dont have blood.

Delusional people. They brought misery on themselves.

Herein lies the problem: people here keep looking to the past to settle scores instead of choosing to look forward to the future for solutions that EVERYONE will benefit from….

Holy fuck, imagine all people who ever got displaced to act like that. There would never be peace anywhere.

The older generation are more accepting of peace. As for the younger generation in the video that couldn't have much more depressing. And oh yeah Israel has left Gaza.

When you see and hear here, this sense of denial or exclusion of the existence of the other part, you may not wonder why walls are built higher and higher at the borders.

Israel was simply too kind . They don’t realize the land given was a gift after they LOST THE WAR !

The girl with the green hijab who answered your question is clearly showing the sad reality of the region. I wonder if the Arabs who settled in the West Bank and Gaza even realize that the West Bank and Gaza and Hebron, etc. we’re all part of Judea for thousands of years and we’re the home of the Jewish people and Christians and other people. The areas are the home of many people who should learn to get along and halt this childish bickering and fighting. It is sad to see how much prejudice and hatred exist in this region. Tragic how the Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank raise their children and grandchildren to hate. They need to look in the mirror and recognize this terrible tragedy. Because they are perpetrating hate and violence and war and ruining any chance for peace in the region.

This is very depressing indeed. Seems like these people do not realize that almost all of us Israelis were born here, and have no other place to call home. I do recognize the human suffering of the Palestinians, but it sure seems they are unable to accept the fact that Israel basically started as a big refugee camp. My grandparents fled on a rocky boat from Italy to Israel, just to be arrested by the brits and locked up for 2 years. My father, a loyal Jewish Egyptian, fled from Egypt as all property belonging to Jews was confiscated as a revenge for the Jews building up their homeland. They were practically being thrown out of Egypt to Israel. The 1948 generation of Jews and Palestinians went through hell and are responsible for hell. But as long as Palestinians cling to the past and seek no solution that can include both narratives, they will continue to lose and that's sad. As one generation comes and goes you will find less sympathy and less understanding to the claim of the Palestinians as they are rooted in this land far more the Palestinians can imagine. We are moving on, building an amazing country (far from perfect) and so is the world. It Seems like we will all have to wait 100 more years for the narratives to catch up with each other. Until then we should all learn at least to be less violent to each other while we try to find a solution to a problem previous generations have created for all of us.

We left gaza ten years ago and look at the mess hamas has created

Its crazy how little history all these people know.

It's sad that all the young people would refuse peace with Israel. That is why we are in the situation we are in today in November 2023. There's so many people outside of Israel and Palestine saying the people of Gaza and to a lesser extent the West Bank don't support Hamas. This interview is just more evidence that the regular people of Palestine have no interest in peace. They are happy to be in a neve ending war.

Wow that girl smiling while speaking of no Israel made me so uncomfortable...

So basically, the Palestinians will accept peace only if Israel stops to exist, and all the Jews gone or dead, sorry to break to you, dear Palestinians, never gonna happen,we are here to stay. and don't make mistakes it's our land, and it written in your Koran , so for God sake read it, and think (just a little) before you talk.

Wow, best question ever. No partner with Palestinians.... No way to compromise. They would rather stay like this forever.

They never learned history, It has never in record history been theirs.

I was curious about one of the interviewee's assertion about Tel Aviv originally belonging to the Palestinians and as one might expect, that appears to be a completely false propaganda point: "The city was founded in 1909 by the Yishuv (Jewish residents) as a modern housing estate on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ Yafo), then part of the Jerusalem province of Ottoman Syria."

"It's not Tel Aviv, it's Tel Arabiya" 😂😂😂 I laughed so hard. Edit: apparently she said Tel Al-rabi3 which is a literal translation of Tel Aviv, still funny tho.

people ask why doesnt israel leave the west bank. SImple answer answer is it wont make peace

Man this is depressing. Most of these Palestinians wouldn't accept peace unless Israel completely disappeared, and EVEN THEN, some people say that they wouldn't accept peace for the "things Israel has done to our people". This is lunacy.

I'd be very interested in hearing responses to "What country does NOT belong to Muslims", meaning what place or countries can reject/expel Muslims because it is not "their land" (similar to how they accept Jews should leave the WB or Gaza because it is in their eyes, "Muslim land". Will they accept that Sweden is Swedish land and that Muslims have no basis of existing there? How about Europe in general? I believe it could unearth a cognitive dissonance and highlight the unattainable framing of these replies.

What the girl with green hijab described is defeat and unconditional surremder not peace, and looks like she havent noticed but her nation is on the defeated side of the conflict.

It is funny how often people are saying they want peace with Israel but then presume they're talking about a situation where Israel was completely erased.

Never ceases to amaze me how some people want a homogenous society in “their” land, but also want to be able to emigrate to other countries themselves. So…. Only “their” land should be free of others?

Wikipedia: "According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Tel Aviv had a population of 15,185 (15,065 Jews, 78 Muslims and 42 Christians."

So why do Arab allied coalition leaders and United Nations (UN) all keep taking about a "Two State Solution", when Palestinians themselves don't want any "Two State Solution"!!!

Israel left Gaza completely in 2005: is there peace? Case closed.

These people are so radical! How can peace be achieved?

I wouldn't worry too much about those responses. If a two-state solution was implemented, people would learn to live with it as seen in many other similar conflicts. Israel would get a lot more support from the world to enforce its borders, and Palestinians would realize that peace is good for prosperity.

They want the whole land for themselves and ending up with nothing. Well done...

Now I understand why all the 2-state solutions in the past have never been accepted by Palestinian leaders. If any part of Israel remaining is included in the deal, the people will not accept it.

Someone smart once said, "in islam, 'peace' is a euphamism for 'surrender'"

i can see the snakes dancing out of her breathe while she grins and answers the questions.

Thanks for showing the obvious, it's not about 67 it's about 48,now leave Israel alone!

This doesnt get anywhere near enough views. But I was happy to see it on MEMRI and elsewhere around the net. Well done Corey!

I find it strange that even though the questions asked properly and clearly and translated accurately, most of them seem to have trouble understanding them

The Romans were the first to call this region Palestine, and they were referring to much of present day Jordan, Syria and Lebanon as well as where Israel sits. But nobody is demanding that people in those countries leave because Palestine once covered those areas.

That was very, very depressing.

When it was founded the State of Palestine and by whom What were its borders? What was her capital? What were its main cities? Who was its basic economy What is her government's response? If you can name at least one leader before Arafat? If Palestine has ever been recognized by a state whose existence at one time or another What was the language of a Palestinian state? What was the common religion in the state of Palestine? What was her nature? Since there is no such state today, what caused it to be destroyed? When did this happen?

It's so sad that they would rather continue dying and let their children and daughters continue to die thought of Peace doesn't even enter their minds

The bottom line is "good fences make good neighbors." If you watch enough vids like this you eventually must realize the sad truth: most Palestinians (and many Arabs and Persians) are raised to hate Jews and most Jews are raised to respect all people."

Thanks, I can write off losing sleep over wondering if more land for more peace would work.

From the River to the sea, Palestine will never be!

Not a single one accepted the 2 states solution. Wow..

it's sad how the elders want peace more than the young people. it's just getting worse...

I'am a Palestinian but i dont agree with the sentence ( it's just our land ) it's all god's land , if we were here before anyone else that dosent mean that only us got rights to live here! I strongly vote for the 2 state solution

In short: _"There_ _will_ _be_ _peace,_ _if_ _all_ _Israeli's_ _are_ _gone,.._ _somehow."_ With this mentality Palestine will be as peaceful as Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, .., .. and no masters degree in game theory is required to determine how much sense it makes to compromise with counterparts having this mindset.

As a Syrian who left destroyed Syria, I can only hope to see a miracle that changes this reality. I dream of one levantine land that has two names. A land that doesn't have only one religious or ethnic identity. A land that resembles its neighbors where the people are so mixed up because of history, that they sometimes don't know themselves anymore. A land that embraces its very long history entirely, and not only parts of it. A land that welcomes anyone who feels its home to return to it. I dream of jews living not only in this land, but also in Damascus, Aleppo, and Baghdad, like they used to do for hundreds of years. I pray to god to put the light in jews' hearts so that they truly heal from their terrible experiences across history in Europe and "truely" return for their main home (Israel/Palestine). I also pray to god to take the darkness that prevailed over the Muslim world since Europeans decided to send anthropologists to "study" our people and manipulate their hearts and thoughts.

Same as others here, as a long time supporter of the two-state solution, this is depressing. Ufortunately, it confirms that Israel will never be able to allow Palestenians to establish a state alongside Israel and develop an army. So everybody stays trapped in this vicious cycle of hate and violence 😞

Older people lived more time to know they have heard and see a load more BS then the younger generation. Regardless, one can see how the victimization card leads to entitlement and refuse to acknowledge basic human rights for the other side.

And then people wonder why we have such a giant problem here. Ask every Israeli if they want peace, and I guarantee you they all do. Every single one.

A problem that will never be solved

Two questions for Muslims that want all the land 1. Where would the Jewish people go? The West can not take in 9 million refugees. 2. If Palestinians were to return to Israel proper what would they be returning to? Do they actually believe Israel would just leave all the beautiful homes and buildings for them to go live in? Of course not. They would be returning to rubble, no jobs and complete poverty

what if Iranian proxies (Hamas or others) LEFT the West Bank and Gaza !?!?!?!??????????????? that would be wonderful

Tel arabya? Where did she "learn" that from?

When a population tells you, believe them. They will Never forgive, always expect more than given, and never compromise. That has to change or it will just be more of the same.

i will never split my house with stranger who came from Europe just because his religion tell him this house is his

Where does this "this is our land" rhetoric come from? History cleary demonstrates that the Jews were in that part of the world before there was any referemce to a palestinian. There are no records of the Romans conquering Palestinians for the land. Where am I wrong?

Surprised to see that the older people are more tolerant than the younger generation, but easy to understand the indoctrination and lies they are taught. They have been conditioned to believe that Palestine existed, was once a great nation but never in any recorded history has Palestine ever existed when it was ruled, governed or even occupied by Palestinians for Palestinians. Israel does not THINK that Israel is their land, ISRAEL has credible evidence to back up their claim.. ALLAH GAVE THE LAND TO THE JEWS. Why don't they believe their own Koran? ARABS rejected their own homeland in 1947....and 1937 Peel Commission. Palestinians were invented by Arafat in 1964. 100 years of Arab REJECTIONISM relates the whole story of why Arabs aka Palestinians do not have a homeland.

How a duped people can produce hate and unforgiveness. So sad.

Are there any Palestinians who are aware of Judea? Do they not know that Jews have been there for 1000s of years? Do they not know how the name Palestine came to be?

Well, you can hear that Corey is mad himself when asking the questions. This video is infuriating. As an Israeli watching those videos I have become more right wing than before. Those videos show me that the Palestinians don't even recognize my country and are not willing to make peace whatsoever. The land is theirs in their opinion, all of it. We will never leave the land our ancestors built. "Am Israeli Hai", "ein li erets aheret". "עם ישראל חי, אין לי ארץ אחרת" - The people of Israel are alive, I have no other land.

Israel left gaza in 2005 and there is no peace.. why bother asking?

Interesting to see this now. Had the date not been public, I woulda thought this was published 2 weeks ago

We want peace, we want peace, we want the whole piece. 😂😂😂.

this is the problem. Even if Israel agreed to the two state solution it would just allow its enemies to move their forces closer to Israel and allow them to surprise attack in the future. The problem is that the Muslims in the region will never stop until the state of Israel is destroyed. And exactly that is why Israel can not back down, it would be suicide.

It's sad to hear many of the views of the younger people on the video. I bet if you offered a deal for a two state solution on the 1967 borders, the Palestinian leadership would snap your hand off. But it seems the Israelis are right that any deal would only be viewed by Palestinians as the first step in acquiring something better down the road and not as an end in its self. Thank you by the way for posting these videos. It's virtually impossible to actually hear Palestinian voices and opinions in the mainstream media.

only 2 out of about 9 people will be willing to have peace. Who is Israel supposed to have a peace agreement with..? interesting is the fact that both of them were from the older population.

Do they really not know how their forefathers became refugees, not them. Do they really not know there has never been a "land" called Palestine? They scare me