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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm no anthropologist or anything, but I'm pretty sure the annexation of the West Bank would guarantee a permanent guerilla terrorist force operating within Israel's borders for the foreseeable future. Israel would never know peace. In 200 years they'll probably still trying to snuff out terrorist cells constantly killing civilians.

Just with this war they have created thousands of fresh new volunteers for Hamas both within and outside the general area of the conflict.

The way out of this is more empathy for the Palestinians, not less.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not if you push out the people living there, which has been how Israel has historically done it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

That's exactly how you guarantee a permanent guerilla terrorist force.

[–] mojofrododojo 6 points 5 months ago

it's important, critical, to remember that Israel didn't blunder into this conflict; they were warned by internal and external intelligence that Hamas was going to attack, that it was going to be big.

Any rational actor would have readied their defenses, Bibi didn't care. This is because Bibi needed the conflict to stay in office. And now Bibi's jerking around POTUS.

Bibi's been growing Hamas for decades. It serves his needs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

You're basically describing the situation we've been in since the Nahkba in 1948.