> People here and elsewhere have convinced me that antisemitism is far more prevalent than I had assumed.

The protests aren't antisemitic. I believe that Israel's behavior will increase antisemitism around the world, but antisemitism has been conspicuously absent at the protests. American university campuses simply are not antisemitic places.

> You're associating the currently terrible government run by a criminal with Israel.

That criminal has been repeatedly elected, and has been in charge for much of the last 30 years. He's not even the worst guy in the government. He's in a coalition with outright fascists like Smotrich and Ben Gvir. Netanyahu is an accurate reflection of what Israel has become.

> But again, Hamas sabotaged that and Arafat/Abu Mazen didn't have the sway to make a proper peace treaty.

You're leaving out a pretty massive fact: Rabin was assassinated, and the guy who came to power, Netanyahu, was an open opponent of the peace process who did everything in his power to sabotage it. The Camp David summit that everyone always talks about was a last-ditch effort to revive the peace process after years of deliberate sabotage by the Israeli government. But Barak was still unwilling to meet the Palestinians "22% of the way" (not even halfway) and accept a sovereign Palestinian state on the basis of the Green Line.

> Thanks for giving us the right to exist. Wow. Amazing concession.

You're an Israeli? I thought you were American. Maybe I just falsely assumed. In any case, this is a massive concession, because the Palestinians have given up their claim to places like Haifa and Jaffa, which used to be almost 100% Palestinian cities, and which they were unjustly driven out of. So far, no Israeli government has reciprocated and acknowledged a Palestinian "right to exist." There is no firm commitment on record that the Israeli government will ever recognize a Palestinian state.

> Again a delusional argument that ignores 9M people most of whom were born in this 78% of land.

You're ignoring the millions of Palestinian refugees who deeply desire to return to their home towns inside what is now Israel. The Palestinians renounced their claim to that land, which was a deeply painful and unjust move. But they did it, and that should have been the moment when the US turned around and told Israel, "Now you have reciprocate and agree to withdraw to the 1967 lines." The US did not do so, which is why Oslo failed.

> Furthermore, the territories we're discussing include big settlements. Israel offered many things including traded lands

The settlements were built illegally, with the express intention of making a Palestinian state impossible. The Palestinians have agreed to drop their claims to everything beyond the Green Line, and Israel should/must do the same. One of the major failings of Oslo is that it did not freeze settlement construction, and the Israelis massively accelerated settlement construction during the "peace process." That alone is such a massive sign of bad faith that the Palestinians should have pulled out of the negotiations, and the US should have forced Israel to stop. You can't negotiate over how to divide a pizza while one side eats more and more of it.

> If Palestinians are so downtrodden and persecuted why didn't they take the offers for statehood?

Because there haven't been any offers that would lead to a sovereign Palestinian state, as I explained earlier. The most that has ever been offered is a Palestinian "entity" that gets to manage some of its own internal matters, but which is still firmly under Israeli military control.

> This is pushing the prospect of a Palestinian state further away

On October 6th, there was no prospect of a Palestinian state.

> Oslo accord started thanks to the PLOs decision to stop the violence.

And then it didn't lead to a Palestinian state. The Israelis have succeeded in convincing the Palestinians that a peaceful approach brings nothing. A violent approach also brings nothing. Nothing brings anything. The fundamental problem is that the Palestinians have no power to resist, and Israel feels no pressure to concede anything. Until the US gets tough on Israel, this will not change. That's why the demonstrations in the US are so important.