Zev Spitz

Israel's high fertility rate is not because of the "do-nothing Haredim and other religious nuts" (NB. way to go diversity and inclusion!) but is across the board in all sectors of Jewish society. (Arab society has normalized towards Western norms, as I noted.) The Haredi sector has actually seen a slight decrease in fertility over the past decade.
I find your division of Israeli society between "intelligent secular Ashkenazi" and "do-nothing Haredim and other religious nuts" simplistic in the extreme, as well as racially and religiously prejudiced. It ignores such phenomena as the plethora …

Did Israel cause the Sunni/Shia schism at the heart of Iran's war against the rest of the world? Did Israel cause the Syrian civil war? Did Israel cause Iraq to invade Kuwait?
The Muslim world is generally drawing closer to Israel. Consider: had Hamas not attacked on Oct. 7th, KSA would undoubtedly already have joined the Abraham Accords. Every other Islamic nation would have followed quickly behind. This would have reversed, in one fell swoop, the Mufti's transformation of the anti-Zionisim of the Arabs of then-Palestine into a pan-Islamic/pan-Arab cause.

Jordanian society is still extremely anti-Israel, as is Egyptian society. But there isn't a perfect correlation between legitimate leadership and democracies; in the Middle East, it's rather the reverse - democratic institutions have no inherent legitimacy, so they are corrupted by whoever has the biggest guns.
All the relatively stable regimes have legitimacy, some more some less. Jordan's legitimacy IMO stems from the Hashemites' honest and obvious desire to benefit their people. Egypt has a strong tradition dating back to the pharaohs of centralized rule. Each of the emirates in UAE and …

The idea of resettlement would not have gained such force were it not for the atrocities of Oct.
(NB Which I remind you were far more up close and personal than Israeli air and ground strikes at military targets that harmed civilians. And were far more "creative" as well - lots of zip ties, deliberate mutilations & gender-based violence, among other things.
But Hamas had its own "resettlement conference", long before Oct. 7th: https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-sponsored-promise-hereafter-conference-phase-following-liberation-palestine-and . But no outrage of course, the oppressed can do n…

Let's talk about Sheikh Jarrah. The timeline is as follows:
1876: Two Jewish communal trusts purchase part of the land around the tomb of Simon the Just. One of the trusts built a neighbood.
1891: A private company bought an additional plot in the area and built another neighborhood.
1948: The Jewish residents were evacuated. Jordan took control of the area. Some Palestinian refugees settled in the houses.
1956: Jordan-UNRWA built a compound for refugees on the portion belonging to the other trust.

I'm not dismissing Arafat as an ex-terrorist, because he never stopped being one. (Unlike Menachem Begin, who at two separate junctures held his party back from violent response, because he feared a civil war.) Bassem Eid describes the incredible letdown when he realized - right after the establishment of the PA - that the same reign of terror Arafat & co. had directed to Israelis & Jews would continue to be directed at Palestinians. https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/confronting-human-rights-abuses-in-the-palestinian-authority/

Israel is not shifting right primarily because of demographics (although that is a factor) but because the left was pushing the Oslo Accords on the assumption that everyone wants more or less the same things and anything can be bought for economic prosperity. This was not true of the Arabs of Palestine a century ago - Musa Alami famously told Ben Gurion he'd prefer the land remain poor and desolate even for another hundred years rather than work with the Zionists.
It is also not true today, as the same 2017 Hamas policy document (in the original Arabic, not a "charter") states: "There shall…

Ben Gvir today disavows his youthful views (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_cnRNou-lY) and promotes full rights for Israel's Arab citizens. You can hardly claim Arafat underwent some kind of transformation without allowing the same for Ben Gvir.
He demonstrated it to the satisfaction of Israel's Supreme Court, unlike Arafat who never demonstrated any such thing.
Even if you want to argue the transformation is only skin deep for public consumption, that itself proves Hanania's point, that Israeli society places firm limits on its extremists.

Hanania's claim is not that Palestinian society is forever doomed, but that Palestinian society **as it is today** cannot rein in its extremists. Palestinian society can certainly change, even though it would require massive cultural shifts.
Jordan is ruled by a fundamentally Middle Eastern regime - the Hashemite king & aristocracy - which nevertheless shows deep responsibility towards its people. Even so, Jordan is balanced on a knife edge, with the Hashemites continuously having to placate the Palestinian majority, against Jordan's clear self-interest in remaining on the US's good side & …

How does this square with:
"20. ... However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus."
Very simple. If Fatah manages to get the aforementioned state, Hamas won't denounce them as traitors to the cause.

RE moderation of the 2017 policy document (not a "charter" per the original Arabic):
"19. There shall be no recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist entity. ...
21. Hamas believes that no part of the land of Palestine shall be compromised or conceded, irrespective of the causes, the circumstances and the pressures and no matter how long the occupation lasts. Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. ...
27. ... There is no alternative to a fully sovereign Palestinian State on the entire national Palestinian soil, with Jeru…

Smotrich, Ben Gvir & their parties are all committed to preserving basic human rights for all. They stand behind all citizens of Israel having full civil rights & equality under law.
That's why they suggest only encouraging voluntary transfer - streamlining & legalizing the emigration process from Gaza, & finding appropriate destinations - without any coercive element whatsoever; & argue the IDF should be handling aid distribution in Gaza so it doesn't go to Hamas.
Even if you argue they're taking a position to earn brownie points with the electorate or to fall in with some social pressure,…