Jews are from Judea, Arabs are from Arabia, the Arabs should give the Jews ALL their land back including Jordan, and the Africans all their land back, and fuck off back to Arabia :>/
I guess you also want all the non-indigenous people in the Americas to move back to where their ancestors came from, too? England and Spain are gonna get really crowded.
GTFO with this racist bullshit. What you’re calling for is called ethnic cleansing.
He actually straight up calls it a cleansing in a comment from one day ago:
Hamas and Hezbollah financier, Iran, who calls America the Great Satan, and Israel the Zionist Entity which it will wipe form the history books, two weeks after "Palestinian" Islamofacist Terrorists stormed into Israel and slaughtered, raped, and burnt close to 2 thousand Israelis, concerns are noted.
The war will end, once Hamas and PIJ are cleansed from Gaza, and then Gaza will look far different than it does today, with far greater buffers between where the Arabs will live and the Israeli border. It's not going to end a millisecond before that is achieved, come what may.
We've got the US battle group in the Eastern Med, and we're ready to take on all fucking comers.
So yeah, do your part and report this guy. I have multiple times and nothing has been done.
who said I reported that? I just said he's called for cleansing and to report him. To be clear though, I do believe his words are in the wheelhouse of hate speech. It's a broad term though and open to interpretation.
Do you have no issue with the language that guy is using?
To each their own. To him Palestine is not a people, to you hamas is not a people, but it will definitely be people that are killed in the service of that view. You can try to sit on technicality but read some of the endless posts this dude writes and he sees no separation. Words carry weight and used in the context that it was I find it extremely hard to think a rational person would phrase things that way without the intended connotation.
It's literally an organization made up of people and that's the extent of what I'm pointing out rhetorically. I give no shits about what you are other apologists consider "rational" as you engage in a bad faith argument from the jump. Go pull your debate club shtick on someone else.
You are actually engaging in bad faith when you try to get someone’s comment removed for speaking in a way that is consistent with international diplomacy.
Trying to ban a person because you disagree with them is childish and stupid.
My comment holds regardless of outcome from a mod, and if a mod is dumb enough to ban this person that just means the mod is abusing their authority due to inherent bias.
This certainly doesn't sound like a racist, expansionist, authoritarian take. Why don't you speak a little more on what you'd like to do to the peoples of Arabia? I can't tell, do you consider them people?
You find me one, and we'll talk. The Jewish people's indiginousy is recorded right there in our DNA for anyone to see. But the Edge lords, Jew baiters, Nazis, Islamofascists, and Anarchists, don't want to have the real conversation about Arab colonialism, and land rights. Doesn't matter to us, at all, we're home now, and we aren't going anywhere without a fight to the last.
Biblical history isn’t that great; the Torah was first written during the Babylonian captivity, and is generally agreed to have been composed from 600-300 BCE based off earlier oral traditions. Moses is generally placed ~1300 BCE - hundreds and hundreds of years before the first written Torah.
Archeologically, there’s basically no evidence that supports the Exodus. Like any oral tradition passed down for the better part of a millennium, things got mythologized and expanded on.
Based off both archeology and genetics, Israelites, Phoenicians, Moabites, etc. are considered Canaanites. It’s more of a broad linguistic and ethnic category than a specific kingdom.
Wait, so the record is right there in their blood right? And it proves the land/ground/soil is theirs right? The blood is their right to the soil... Blood and soil? Where have I heard that one before?
Genetics and ancestry is a lot more messy than that.
Both Jews and Palestinians seem to have substantial native Levantine DNA with moderate admixtures from different groups.
If Ashkenazi Jews are indigenous to Israel despite having a significant amount of European maternal DNA, so are Palestinians. Genetically, Ashkenazim and Palestinians are cousins.
Ever since this happened I have held the firm belief that Russia was behind planning the attack. Russia, in dire need of diversion from their complete failure as a state and as a military power, go to their allies in Iran and ask them to equip the usual gang of fundamentalist extremists with a bunch of rockets and explosives and just sic them on Israel. Like, wag the dog.
The effect it had on media reporting on Ukraine before and after is stark, even though the Russian invasion is a far greater and more urgent existential threat to the west than the latest round in an endless cycle of conflict that’s been raging for the better part of a century…
Whoops, there it was again, that “they were stolen from first” logic.
Forcefully removing occupants from their homes and restricting their movement to and from it is inhumane, despite whatever logical gymnastics you’re using to justify it.
Without addressing those issues no humane response will be had either way. Although trying to address them doesn’t seem to help either. But the “both sides need to stop fighting” line doesn’t work for me. One has to take into consideration the power imbalances and systemic segregation involved. Under some circumstances I don’t think it is at all immoral to act in violence- I do think it becomes a self perpetuating firestorm that takes on a life all of its own, but that doesn’t mean that the adversaries are by necessity equally culpable for causing it, or that they struggle on equal moral footing.
Palestinians have been repeatedly kicked out of their homes for decades and decades ever since the late 40s, with their lands, homes and lives destroyed over and over again. An Israeli person born into the conflict who hasn’t actively supported ethnic cleansing isn’t guilty. This is a cursed problem because Palestinians deserve to have all the land back, but there are plenty of innocent Israelis who do not deserve to be robbed of their homes due to the crimes of previous generations.
Since Israel’s actions have made a 2-state solution impossible, the only potential just solution would be a single state where both Palestinians and Israelis are free and equal citizens, and Palestinians are paid reparations. This is currently impossible because both populations are immersed in a cycle of violence and desire for revenge. So we should, at the very moment, focus on solutions that seek to immediately stop the continued murders, and hope that this calms down the bloodlust as the months and years come by. I don’t see any way in which this is possible without the joint efforts of the historical allies of Israel and Hamas twisting their arms in order to prevent further abuse, and possibly establish a justice system that oversees and judges the crimes from actors of one side against the other.
I appreciate this comment. I have had a circular problem trying to determine a way out of the “both sides suck, but right now you suck more”. Now actually convincing the 2 populations this and getting the political will power to enact it is a whole other beast. But for the moment, this internet stranger is on board.
Gaza West Bank and Israel all have to be dissolved. “Give the land back” implies land can be owned at all, which fundamentally violates the right of others to freedom of movement.
Guthrie said it best,
There was a big, high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted said “Private Property”
But on the backside, it didn’t say nothing
That side, was made for you and me
What needs to happen is the abolition of Israel and Palestine and the replacement of both with a south levant confederation that absolutely guarantees the equal rights of all citizens, and absolutely cracks down to the draconian nth degree against supremacism or separatism.
The Israelis have ruined the two state solution with their settlements in WB and in the Golan heights, so now they get to live with the consequences of democratic accountability instead of doing the rez shit America pulled where nobody felt like answering if indigenous folks were citizens too until they were demographically outnumbered enough to not retaliate against the politicians that screwed them.
Hamas are not freedom fighters, their the corrupt rez boss family that wittingly or not are the extension of the state’s oppression over the people.
Also before anyone tries to cry wolf Anti-Semite, Israel’s a major funder of stateside politicians that ferment antisemitic sentiments by tolerating it among their supporters. Why you may ask? Because American Jews rejected Zionism heavily since their state of being in the US served as a direct refutation of the idea that Jews needed their own ethnostate to ever be safe. Israeli Jews often openly contempt American Jews for being “woke” since even orthodox american Jews can be considered more liberal than their European and Israeli counterparts.
Israel wants to make America as hostile to Jews within their borders as possible because every family that flees to Tel Aviv over a swastika painted on the synagogue is another house they get to take from the Palestinians, and another “point” in the score in their vendetta against American Jews having rejected the initial call at Israel’s establishment.
“Give the land back” implies land can be owned at all, which fundamentally violates the right of others to freedom of movement.
That’s a compelling idealistic position. But what we’re really looking at right now is a simple “Might Makes Right” arrangement. Israel controls its territory firstly because it successfully perpetrated the Nakba back in '48 and purged its current territory of Palestinians. And secondly because it defeated its neighbors back in the '67 Seven-Day War.
In that sense, the land IS owned. It is owned by the victors in these incredibly violent conflicts.
Hamas are not freedom fighters, their the corrupt rez boss family that wittingly or not are the extension of the state’s oppression over the people.
They’re whats left of the government that has been smashed up time and time again by a rival military. If they look and act like a crime family, it might be interesting to interrogate what kind of conflicts other crime families emerged from. Check out Operation Gladio and its influence over Italian-American mafias. Or look into how the collapse of the USSR gave birth to enormous European criminal cartels. Ask what happened in the wake of the American Civil War and how organized crime along the Gulf Coast emerged as a result. Or the Spanish and Chinese Civil Wars, for that matter.
At some point, trying to point at an organization and say “These people are uncompromisingly evil” misses the historical events that gave birth to them. The Israel Government is a consequence of European anti-Semitism and of the Cold War politics of the Middle East. Hamas is a consequence of Israeli police and paramilitary transforming Gaza into an enormous black market by necessity.
What comes next will be a consequence of what came before it. And moralizing the actors does nothing to illuminate what to anticipate next.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich delivered a speech in Paris saying the notion of a Palestinian people was artificial.
“There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history. There is no Palestinian language,” he said in France late Sunday. He spoke at a lectern draped with what appeared to be an image showing the map of Israel that included the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Jordan.
Here is a list of peace offers which would grant the Palestinians a country of their own, they refused all of them
1937 - Peel commission, rejected
1947 - Partition resolution, rejected
2000 - Camp David, rejected
2001 - Taba, rejected. Arafat starts the second intifada and a year later changes his mind.
2008 - Olmert offer, rejected
Hamas have tried to agree to boundaries Despite media attempts to portray it as a new Hamas charter, it is not. The new ‘policy document’ accepts the creation of a Palestinian state in 1967 borders, but still rejects Israel and claims its territory. www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39775103
Here are some other noteworthy peace meeting or proposals from Israel to the rest if the Arab world, which were rejected
1919: Arabs of Palestine refused nominate representatives to the Paris Peace Conference.
So, what happened in 1948 that lead to 1949, and what historically happened with the original inhabitants of the region (spoiler alert, the Jews) over the past 2000 years? Or does your knowledge of history stop in 1949?
I mean the jews that fled to israel were being genocided everywhere. This all started way before the holocaust my dude. This conflict is not one to be very wisecrack about. How far back do you look for who is the baddie and whos the goodie?
Yeah they definitely were, and that’s awful, all genocide is awful.
Its hard to say how far back to look, one would hope as generations continue hatreds of past injustices (if anything was done to ease/reduce/eliminate) those injustices would start to simmer down on all sides.
Unfortunately very often prejudices are passed down to the next generation which just starts the cycle all over again.
Regardless, the Holocaust was horrible no question but that doesn’t then justify the government of Israel getting away with war crimes, nor does me saying that justify in any way the horrible things Hamas has done. However it is important to understand context especially in the more recent past.
Understanding how and why the Israel/Palestine conflict has simmered would lead to how and why Hamas was formed in the first place, similar to how looking at America helped formed Al Queda to overthrow the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan
Hey, I think a peaceful solution where both co-exist can and should be implemented. That’s the ideal.
I’m just pointing out that if we start going off history, it’s ultimately going to point at Jews being the original inhabitants of the land and having that land taken from them. Anyone who tries to justify atrocities against Jews with selective history or any whataboutisms is either completely ignorant of history or has an ulterior motive.
The harsh reality is that the ultra-orthodox Jews will need to be silenced and the majority of men in Palestine will need to be as well. I’d hope for peaceful rehabilitation, we did a good job with it in Germany and an okay job in Japan. But the dark side of this is that it may end up with long or life-time internment for extremists. They will stop any peace process as long as they are free to interfere. And we’re talking hundreds of thousands of men here.
At the end of the day though, if only one side is going to get the land due to lack of action from the international community, then it deserves to be Israel. If you think that’s wrong, then try chanting “Gays for Free Palestine” in Gaza and see what happens.
No, it’s based on who’s actively attempted to commit genocide and who hasn’t. And no, Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. And if you genuinely don’t know about the multiple post-WWII attempts to kill all the Jews in Israel, then any opinions you have about the Middle East mean nothing.
The Jews were not the original inhabitants of the land. That claim is solely on early Arabs. They lived, settled and thrived for 3000 years before they were driven out by Canaanites.
Not only were the Arabs the original inhabitants of the area but they also lived there the longest amount of time.
No, the current idea is to create a Palestinian state using the land that Israel currently occupies.
In 1988, with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) intention to declare a Palestinian State, Jordan renounced all territorial claims to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
But I suspect you are trying (and failing) to create some “gotcha” moment. Israel doesn’t have the legal right to annex Gaza, the West Bank, or East Jerusalem. They simply control it because they have more guns.
That’s not a “current” idea, and is only diplomatically material. Hell it’s only historically diplomatically material because Jordan and Egypt don’t give a rat’s ass about Palestinians after Palestinian refugees attempted coups in their countries.
My point is that the Gaza strip and West Bank were won in the Six Day War from Jordan and Egypt, so I’m not sure who OP means when they say “return land”
Palestine isn’t a country, wasn’t ever a country, and was only offered the possibility of becoming a country by Israel.
Again still being down voted. Alot! These pro Palestine need to actually read what has actually happened over there and what Israel and the Jewish have been through over there I got humbled real quick watching this.its funny how they can scream kill the Jews but when the Jews say kill the Palestinians it’s instantly pulled back. It’s only Hamas. Well didn’t jiltwr say kill and gas all Jews. We are walking right back to ww2 again it’s ridiculous.
Your weird erasure of the concept of “Palestine” would be called anti-Semitic if you were talking about Israel. I’m just going to assume it’s bigotry at this point. Some Palestinians have roots going back thousands of years in the region. Israel is Palestine dummy.
Palestine is recognised as a state by huge portions of the world. While, yes, it wasn’t a state in the history of the region, the Palestinian people lived in the region under British and formerly Ottoman rule. Israeli settlers haven’t taken land from the state of Palestine, but they have taken it from the people who have lived in Palestine since the 7th century.
This is just the same argument with different words. They took land from Egyptians and Jordanians when they won the war. There were no “Palestinian people” as any sort of political bloc, prior to 1967.
If the Palestinian people want their own county, they should take one of the many deals they’ve been offered to have their own country.
I’m not talking about the Gaza strip, I’m talking about the area that was once Mandatory Palestine. That land was conquered by the British during the fall of the Ottoman empire, and subsequently taken over to become (most of) what is now Israel and Palestine. Before the Mandate, you’re right that Palestine as an idea didn’t exist, but ther were still people there - most of them Arabs, as had been the case for a very long time before Britain invaded and allowed settlers in. Perhaps the Arabs living in Mandatory Palestine should have taken the “deal” offered them by the UN in 1947, but can you blame them? As far as they were concerned their home had been conquered by a colonial power, settlers had arrived from overseas, and now the UN wanted to slice Palestine in two and give half to the settlers! Since then, to the people who have been displaced, I imagine every new deal just seems like they’re being hemmed further into a corner. I understand why they wouldn’t accept, even though personally I agree that, at some point, they should have - much bloodshed would have been avoided.
Sorry who’s home was conquered when? The British Empire might not have colonised Palestine but they did conquer it and allow settlers in with the intention of forming a state for the Jews.
The Ottoman Empire conquered the area from the empire that existed before them, who conquered it from an empire that existed before them, all the way back to prehistory
Roughly it’s,
ancient Egypt
ancient Israel
Persian empire
Macedonian empire
Hasmoneans
Roman Empire
bunch of random caliphates
Ottoman empire
British empire
Israel
There was never any political entity known as Palestine until Israel sought to create one.
I never intended to disagree with that, but my point was that just because the nation of Palestine didn’t exist 500 years ago does not mean that the people who today we call the Palestinians hold no claim to the land.
And it certainly doesn’t mean that Israel has a claim to it, does it? There was no State of Israel before 1948, either, what claim did they have to it?
War is the only way that matters! Small consolation to the colonised and conquered. Do we not aim to hold ourselves to higher standards in the modern age? Imagine if our world leaders decided that the only thing that mattered is defending land through war!
Clearly they don’t, otherwise we wouldn’t have anyone trying to mediate conflicts, anyone calling for ceasefire in Gaza. Do we just accept Russia invading Ukraine? If Russia flattened the country and took over, do you think that would be justified? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there would be a procession of countries willing to invade and take it back, but that isn’t because Russia would have claimed the land, it would be because they fear for their own people’s lives.
Why, if you think every country in the world is only respecting borders because of military power, doesn’t the US just take over? They certainly have tje military power to back up an invasion of almost any country on the planet.
It’s always funny when people act like they know about a subject, and then argue against things that have long been settled. Acquiring territory through war has been illegal since before Israel existed as a modern country.
It was recognized as a principle of international law that gradually deteriorated in significance until its proscription in the aftermath of World War II following the concept of crimes against peace introduced in the Nuremberg Principles.
It doesn’t matter what “historically worked”. Weapons in the past 100 years are too powerful to allow for conquest. Israel’s occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem violate international norms and the international community doesn’t recognize occupation as justified.
And they can’t just keep the land because they were attacked first. Only defensive wars are permitted under international law.
Jews were expelled by the hundreds of thousands from Iraq, Jordan and other Arab Nations in the 40s.
Jews have always lived in Judea or fought to maintain their presence and they don’t seem keen to leave anytime soon now that they’ve been granted statehood.
Jews were expelled by the hundreds of thousands from Iraq, Jordan and other Arab Nations in the 40s.
That was in large part thanks to the British colonizing and partitioning the old Ottoman Empire. The Palestinian Mandate was, after all, their idea. The Brits wanted to force a mass exodus of Jews from England and the zionists were the useful idiots who would get the job done. If you really want to go deep, you can trace a lot of that slander back to “The International Jew”, composed and published by American entrepreneur Henry Ford.
By the 40s, Jews got scapegoated in the Middle East the same way they’d been scapegoated in Europe a decade earlier. Sunni and Shia factions turned to infighting across territory the Brits had parceling out with a deliberate eye on maximizing conflict. And then we can consider a series of foreign-backed coups - from the military occupation of Egypt during WW1 to the '41 forced abdication of Iranian leader Reza Shah Pahlavi - that destablized the region for decades.
There’s a certain irony in Churchill’s “Final Solution” for the Jewish people being not all that different from Hitler’s original plan. Shove them all into a tiny patch of land on the Mediterranean coastline, as far from mainland Europe as we can get them, and transform them into a client state of the world’s largest arms exporters.
So you’re blaming Churchill for the Jews losing their land in Arab controlled territories but it’s the Jews fault Arabs lost land in British controlled areas that were established as the nation of Israel? A nation that was immediately attacked by 5 countries I probably need to remind you.
Ya, that’s exactly the Anti Semitic bullshit I’d expect.
Lemmie know when the Jews will be given back their lands in the surrounding Arab Nations and I’ll start listening to the calls for the same to happen within Israel.
My thoughts are that the UN resolution establishing Israel clearly calls for the necessary actions to occur to allow for Eretz Israel which unfortunately required the relocation of some residents. Article 39, says that any attempt to alter the settlement called for in the resolution to be addressed. That’s political speak for 'gtfo or we’ll do it for you '. The resolution also called on the Palestinians to get on board or get out of the way. The Palestinians didn’t follow the mandate, they started a fight instead.
That’s entirely different from the removal of Jews from the surrounding Arab Nations, who had no such mandate from the United Nations.
As for your claims it’s ongoing, as soon as Israel was established they were attacked. They’ve been attacked a dozen times since, never being the one who started the fighting either. Nasser amassing troops on the border and threatening to start a war, triggering an engagement isn’t Israel starting a war. That’s the only one that’s even possibly debatable. When Hamas stops, the fighting stops.
Your reference to the people of the region also being semitic is either out of ignorance or again, Antisemitism because the origins of that phrase have a very very clear anti-semitic history. Only those with the loudest dog whistles are out there trying to make the claim that being anti-Semitic includes the other groups of the region other than Jews.
You seem like one of those people who learned about this situation 3 weeks ago. Suggest shutting up, sitting down and learning something that doesn’t come from tik tok. The history is well set out.
My thoughts are that the UN resolution establishing Israel clearly calls for the necessary actions to occur to allow for Eretz Israel which unfortunately required the relocation of some residents.
I think Andrew Jackson said something to the same effect while negotiating with Cherokee Nation.
That’s entirely different from the removal of Jews from the surrounding Arab Nations, who had no such mandate from the United Nations.
Can you remind me how many deciding votes the Arab Nations had in the UN when Eretz Israel was established?
as soon as Israel was established they were attacked
That’s a very myopic view of history, as it skips over all five Aliyahs, the Arab Revolt of '36, and half a decade of Haganah guerrilla activity throughout the Palestinian Mandate during the 1940s against the British military. These domestic insurgencies - some of which even included inter-Zionist infighting - ran straight up to the day of Independence as part of the '47-'48 Palestine Civil War (a conflict that had been on-and-off since 1920). To claim Israel was immediately attacked, you’d have to limit your historical perception to the brief ceasefire from April to May of '48, and conveniently ignore the Nakba which had begun the prior year.
Your reference to the people of the region also being semitic is either out of ignorance or again, Antisemitism because the origins of that phrase have a very very clear anti-semitic history.
So using the term “semitic” is itself anti-Semitic?
Jews are from Israel and have a right of return
Actually, native Palestinians aren’t really Semitic in origin
Absolutely incoherent. This feels like I’m trying to explain to a Nazi where the term “Aryan” comes from.
So you’re taking issue with Israel following the law set out for them. Yet I’ve yet to see you take issue with the ongoing hostage situation or the civilian attack the other week, so again your hypocrisy exposes itself.
You’re going to sit there and claim Arabs didn’t massacre Jewish villages and towns for decades? Sfat got wiped out how many times? Talk about cherry picking. This is a joke, tantamount to saying it’s ok for Arabs to attack Jewish settlements… sure. If that’s how you want to roll, you’re okay with the West Bank situation then. Or are you again a hypocrite?
The manner in which you’re using the term, along with the context and your established position of being a bigot makes your use of that term Anti Semitic.
Palestinians aren’t from Judea, they are from the Arabian peninsula. I can send you a map if you need. They’re welcome to return there.
You’ve quite often reminded me of the Sartre quote ’ Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies.’ But your latest reply is so devoid of reality, it’s become comical. It’s comforting to know that you’re in the vast minority globally, right along with the Q groups, and Israel will continue to have the support of the world in the face of terrorism and rising Anti Semitism such as what you’re pushing.
So you’re taking issue with Israel following the law set out for them.
Absent enfranchisement, this isn’t civil law it is military dictatorship.
You’re going to sit there and claim Arabs didn’t massacre Jewish villages and towns for decades?
I’m going to sit here and claim the Israelis gave as good as they got in what amounted to an extension of the World Wars in Arab territory. And that these purges were as much a result of the Nakba and the Six Day War as any domestic policy. Absent the slaughter of Arabs by an invading European force, and the insidious anti-Semitic propaganda of Henry Ford, you would not have seen segregationist policies sweeping the Middle East like they had swept Europe decades before.
Palestinians aren’t from Judea, they are from the Arabian peninsula.
Might as well claim Jews aren’t from Judea, they’re from Brooklyn.
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies
If the cartels took complete control of Mexico, stopped all elections, and then stated their goal was to kill all Americans; do you think that we might start patrolling our border a little harder and deliver Mexico a bit of freedom?
The current situation is an absolute disaster and a sad case for innocent civilians who couldn’t even vote out Hamas if they wanted to. But there is a reason that Israel is in the West Bank in the first place, there will never be peace in that region until Hamas is stripped of all power in Gaza. Israel is surrounded by religious extremists on all sides that would genocide them if given the chance.
So, in this situation does Mexico still have an economy? I assume tourism has stopped, but are they still a petroleum exporter? Do they still make cars and trucks for export? Do they still grow Avocados and sell them to the US? Because the Palestinians in Gaza don’t really have an economy to speak of, so unless you first reduce Mexico’s economy to something barely self-sustaining, it really isn’t a fair comparison.
then stated their goal was to kill all Americans
Not much of a cartel if they’re killing their best customers.
we might start patrolling our border a little harder
See, that’s a key difference. Nobody’s saying that Israel shouldn’t patrol their own border. What’s a bigger issue is that they’re patrolling the other borders too. Israel is in a position to cut Gaza off completely. Israel can completely shut off water, food, fuel and power to Gaza. Even before this conflict they shut off tourism and fishing.
In your scenario, imagine the US Navy had carrier strike groups in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Pacific coast, preventing even fishing boats from leaving the Mexican shores. Now imagine the Guatemala and Belize borders were closed too, so that the entire country of Mexico was essentially a prison. That’s the situation in Gaza.
Also, in your scenario, is the US government encouraging Americans to move to Mexico and set up little American compounds there, either by building their own houses or by kicking Mexicans out of theirs and moving in? When Americans go to Mexico and take over a Mexican house, are those Americans protected by the US military? And do they get the protection of US laws, as if the families still lived in the US?
there is a reason that Israel is in the West Bank in the first place
Yes, they have extremely unfriendly relationships with almost every neighbouring country, and they seized that territory after one of the many wars with those neighbours, and have continued to occupy it counter to international law. That, of course, leads to extremely unfriendly relationships with almost every neigbouring country, which leads to conflict, which leads to a need to try to control that territory.
there will never be peace in that region until Hamas is stripped of all power in Gaza
And Hamas (or a group like Hamas) will always be popular in Gaza until people in Gaza have a reason to stop hating Israel, which will only happen when Israel changes the way it treats them. But, Israel is unlikely to treat them better because they know that the people there support Hamas (or groups like Hamas) because of how Israel treats them.
I appreciate this post as it adds needed context to the situation especially about the power imbalance between Israel and Palestine that my post doesn’t touch on (I wasn’t trying to mislead, just keep things simple)
Israel, for better or worse (mostly worse for Palestinians in Gaza) get treated like the US’ little brother because they are in an ever important geopolitical location for a US Ally so they get away with more than they should. The violence against Palestinians then creates a vicious cycle of shows of force and retaliation that helps the current Israel regime maintain power and aid as well.
Like a said it’s a horrible situation and there is room to be anti-hamas and pro-palestinian and room to criticize the IDF’s actions and not be anti-Semitic. Thank you for your comment
Yeah, I agree with this post. It’s a really fucked up situation. In addition to what you mentioned, there are the various Arab neighbours of Israel whose policies have mostly made the problem worse. There’s Iran funding / supporting Hamas. Syria and Iran funding / supporting Hezbollah. Qatar hosting Hamas leadership. Jordan and Egypt refusing to allow Palestinian refugees into their countries.
The main point I was making was that there’s support for Hamas in Gaza because of how badly the Palestinians in Gaza are treated by Israel. The Palestinians in Gaza are treated horribly by Israel, partially to punish them for supporting Hamas, and partially to try to make it harder for Hamas to attack them. A military operation can’t defeat Hamas, even if they kill every current Hamas fighter, the collateral damage will just convince more people to join Hamas. The only thing that has any hope of working is to destroy the support for Hamas. But, the Hamas terrorist attack has worked spectacularly. I don’t mean how effective they were in killing and capturing Israelis, but in terms of provoking the exact response from Israel they wanted. Israel is playing into the hands of Hamas in exactly the same way that the US played into the hands of Osama bin Laden in its response to the 9/11 attacks.
Imagine if the Mexicans say that Mexicans and Natives Americans are the same (even though Mexico has so much European blood and influence) and started claiming the United States and Canada as their holy land. Then every powerful European country agrees with Mexico. The Americans and Canadians will then complain to the UN and the UN will reply “why haven’t you just repartitioned your land better with the Mexicans?”
The USAAF killed more japanese in one firebombing raid than both of their nukes did combined, so for me its weird that you point out the use of nukes as something terrible when they were regularly doing worse.
It’s not a quotation, It’s me imagining that I’m reading out the label on a Bingo square of something that happens a little too often around here unprompted.
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