The Israeli response to peace offers demonstrates deep-rooted violence.

Evidence

Arafat’s peace offer was made in unusually theatrical circumstances, but it got essentially the same reception as all those-from either side-which had preceded it. … The gun, not the olive branch, rules in the Middle East. It always has. — David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch The Roots…, 18

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch The Roots…, 18
• XREF: connects to: Israel formalized the doctrine that protecting Israeli soldiers outranks enemy civilians. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 437