This seems to be the case in a number of world conflicts, such as China - Tibet, Islamic State and the West, and Israeli - Palestinian, to name just a few of the more intractable ones.
Below is an interesting analysis of how the ongoing events of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict on the ground have changed both what people see as future possibilities and how they live with and respond to events.
"In today’s disintegrating Middle East, by contrast, Israelis question the viability of a Palestinian state. Which Arab state, Israelis ask, will be a likely model for Palestine: Syria? Iraq? Libya?
Few Israelis believe that a Palestinian state would be a peaceful neighbor. In part that’s because the Palestinian national movement—in both its supposedly moderate nationalist wing and its radical Islamist branch—continues to deny the very legitimacy of Israel. The Palestinian media repeat an almost daily message: The Jews are not a real people, they have no roots in this land and their entire history is a lie, from biblical Israel to the Holocaust. The current wave of stabbings has been lauded not only by the Islamist Hamas but by the Palestinian Authority. “We bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem,” said Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas in September. “Every martyr will reach paradise.”
in the left-wing newspaper Haaretz, the political scientist Shlomo Avineri,
long one of Israel’s leading voices against the occupation, lamented
that the Palestinian national movement regards Israel “as an
illegitimate entity, sooner or later doomed to disappear.” Labor Party
leader Yitzhak Herzog, in a dramatic reversal of his rhetoric in last
year’s election, recently conceded that there was no chance anytime soon
for a deal with the Palestinians.Most Israelis still support, at least in principle, a two-state solution. Many understand that the creation of a Palestinian state is an existential necessity for Israel, extricating it from a growing pariah status in the world at large, from the wrenching moral dilemmas of occupying another people, from a demographic threat that endangers Israel as both a Jewish and a democratic state. And they understand that the continuing expansion of settlements on the West Bank will only complicate Israel’s ability to withdraw eventually.
But a majority also regards a Palestinian state as an existential threat. They know that it would place Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport, the country’s main link with the world, in easy range of rocket attacks. A Palestinian state also could result in a Hamas takeover of the West Bank and East Jerusalem."
For the rest of this article see the link below. There are also some interesting comments, though unfortunately there are also some very vitriolic ones as well:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/israels-options-in-a-chaotic-middle-east-1456512527
