Israeli and foreign human rights groups have documented a long history of snipers firing on unarmed Palestinians, including children, in Gaza and the West Bank.
Palestinians in Gaza also report a terrifying new development in the latest Gaza war – armed drones able to hover over streets and pick off individuals. Called quadcopters, some of these drones are used as remote-control snipers that Palestinians say have been used to shoot civilians.
I’m not saying they do. In fact I literally pointed that exact fact out.
You are absolutely, 100%, correct. Preaching to the choir. Israel needs to stop, immediately. Anyone who can force their hand should have done so, day one.
But what comes after cannot be what was done to Germany after WWI, because that shit is what led to WWII. Now before you get your panties further into a twist, no, Hama’s current position is not equivalent to that of Germany in WWI.
But ANY peace that comes after this, won’t last, if the people of Gaza have any desire for revenge left 50 years from now. The same goes for Israel, they should more likely develop the kind of national shame that Germany has for WWII, but they too will need some kind of cultural stopping element for their bloodlust.
Whatever comes after this is one of two scenarios: the destruction of Gaza, or the dissolution of Israel. There is no outcome where things go back to how they were before Oct 7. That door is closed and the status quo of those times was no less unjust the the current situation. These two states cannot coexist, worrying about how Israel and Gaza will get along when the bombs stop dropping is pointless because things have escalated to the point where one or both cannot and will not survive this. Hemming and hawing about how much Gaza will hate Israel is pointless navel gazing.
Fully agree.
But the people in that land WILL have to co-exist, no matter what shape their nations take. To minimize death, that is not optional.
You can’t just defang a government and expect that to be the end of it.
You don’t understand. There will be no government left. Either the international community steps in because it finally realizes its moral obligation to stop a genocide, in which case Israel’s government is gone; either tried in the Hague or dead, and the whole region is collapsed into newly-formed single state staffed by UN stooges. Or things continue as they are and we watch a million people get starve under the boot of fascist colonial expansionism, their leadership having fled or been killed. Then we get to watch it all over again when Israel decides it wants the West Bank, too.
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How exactly does any of that semantic nitpicking change the fact that as long as the people remain, the cultural clash that led to all this, will too?
Unless you are suggesting that to stop a genocide, we need another one?
You’ve spent this entire discussion lamenting about how depraved the leadership of these groups are, how they’re the ones driving the conflict. Now you’re going to swap to saying that it’s cultural? Make up your mind.
Now you’re grasping straws.
Unless you are suggesting that cultural consciousness and what kind of people get into leadership positions are entirely unrelated, which they aren’t, you’ve got nothing.