• fbmac@lemmy.fbmac.net
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    I’d like a single atheist state where Palestine and Israeli have equal rights but religion is strictly outlawed. But I wouldn’t kill people to achieve that, so I think my endgame isn’t gonna happen

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      But I wouldn’t kill people to achieve that, so I think my endgame isn’t gonna happen

      Yes, since both other sides have extremists which aren’t happy with any compromise. On both sides, they are in the government. On both sides, they are willing to kill for it, even seeing it as their religious duty. So if you’re unwilling to kill and prefer another scenario, you will most definitely not get it and maybe get killed in the process. The region might have reached it’s nash equilibrium in constant war.

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      Palestine is a secular state (at least Fatah of the West bank is, remember Hamas is a reaction to Isreal’s oppression). Turns out a theological state is fine if it is the “correct religion”.

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    FYI - Getting lots of reports on comments in this thread. We are currently reviewing and re-writing the rules in the Sidebar so I’m choosing to not remove any of them YET. That’s not to say it won’t happen LATER.

    I don’t want to put anyone in a position where something would be removed under the old rules, but not the new rules or vice versa.

    Be aware, things are changing. Hopefully in the next 24 hours.

    Until then, Wheaton’s Rule: Don’t be a dick.

    Also, Downvote is not an “I disagree button”, it’s a “this comment doesn’t contribute to the discussion, we are all dumber for having heard it, I award you no points button”.

  • filister@lemmy.world
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    They do have a plan, but it doesn’t include finding a peaceful solution and a path to long standing peace.

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      Yup, the Israeli State does not give a single shit about innocent Palestinians. They’re quite happy to continue oppressing them, because when the oppressed ‘suddenly’ become radicalised and fight back it gives the Israeli State an excellent excuse to take more land and displace more Palestinians.

      Israel is showing the world it’s not trying to be an apartheid state, but a genocidal one.

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        Anyone who thinks Israelis differentiate between Palestinians and Hamas terrorists is dreaming. It’s one people against another. If anything the Israelis lump all Palestinians together AND the Arabs in the region.

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      So same as the rest of the region? There’s no party with a peaceful plan here, including Palestine.

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      Removing Hamas is removing a symptom. A tumor.

      You need to heal the body after that. Give Gaza hope, order, a reason to cooperate.

      If you just destroy Hamas, then purple-jewish-haters party will take it’s place and do the same.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Israel is vowing to wipe out Hamas in a relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip but has no obvious endgame in sight, with no clear plan for how to govern the ravaged Palestinian enclave even if it triumphs on the battlefield.

    Codenamed “Operation Swords of Iron”, the military campaign will be unmatched in its ferocity and unlike anything Israel has carried out in Gaza in the past, according to eight regional and Western officials with knowledge of the conflict who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.

    The immediate Israeli strategy, said three regional officials familiar with discussions between the U.S. and Middle Eastern leaders, is to destroy Gaza’s infrastructure, even at the cost of high civilian casualties, push the enclave’s people towards the Egyptian border and go after Hamas by blowing up the labyrinth of underground tunnels the group has built to conduct its operations.

    Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Biden’s visit would have given him a chance to press Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to think through issues such as the proportional use of force and the longer-term plans for Gaza before any invasion.

    Two regional military experts told Reuters that Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, has mobilised for an invasion, setting up anti-tank mines and booby-trapped explosive devices to ambush troops.

    Hundreds of Palestinians have died in the West Bank since the start of the year in repeated clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers, and there is widespread concern that the violence might engulf the territory as nearby Gaza burns.


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