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Palestinians will "never give up."

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Submitted by Robert (United States), Sep 6, 2018 at 23:38

My assumption is that the Palestinians will never give up, so better to go after all the others instead, leaving the Palestinians alone, literally, in their intransigence and isolated indirect defeat.

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