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[–] drmoose 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

What's the educated opinion of how could this been handled by Israel? Honest question. (Ignoring the fact that Israel failed with intel)

To me it seems like Gaza had no intention to get rid of Hamas though at the same time bombing is unnecessary as the culprits can't really leave other than the secret tunnels to Egypt which can't really be bombed.

So the only real alternative is a full Blockade and ultimatum or something? Clearly Gaza doesn't stand a chance against IDF too so Israel had all of the cards to conjure any response they wanted.

I've tried to Google similar modern scenarios and couldn't find anything.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To me it seems like Gaza had no intention to get rid of Hamas though at the same time bombing is unnecessary.

There hasn't been elections for 16 or 17 iirc so how can Palestinians "get rid of" Hamas?

Hamas was supported & funded by Netanyahus likud party specifically because it drove a wedge between those in Gaza and in the West Bank. Classic divide and conquer technique.

As for what Israel can do? They can get rid of the genocidal crook that's running their government and his two murderous far right henchmen and grasp that he had concocted this situation for several reasons:

To divert attention away from his corruption and fraud indictments

To quell the protests that have been going on for months against him because of the corruption and legislation he has passed to curtail the supreme courts ability to hold the executive to account.

To level Gaza, ethnically cleanse it & genocide the Palestinian people so he can get to the natural gas and oil reserves there.

Yes, there's a lot Israel can do and it needs to be quick about it.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounds like you just put everything you don't like about Israel in that answer, but without actually giving an answer how this actually could be handled. "Just don't to bad stuff, do good stuff" How would that have been an appropriate response to the terrorist attack?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're talking as though the attacks happened in a vacuum, without intelligence from several sources pre-warning of it and without a certain level of collusion from the Israeli executive to allow it to happen and bring capitalised by then for it's maximum effect.

When you can genuinely approach the subject not from such a disingenuous perspective then my response may well be perceived by you as a bit more than "If you don't want to be taken for a cunt then don't act like one "

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

For me it sounds like you are you saying, they deserve the terrorist attack and are not allowed to react to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That would be the exact reactionary response I would expect from someone with no grasp of the history, its complexity or even a miniscule amount of knowledge of the atrocities that have been carried out against civilians by both sides

[–] eskimofry 4 points 1 year ago

Then you're just ignoring geopolitics and talking about who said what.

[–] SheeEttin 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ideally Israel wouldn't have been oppressing Palestinians in the first place so that Hamas would never have come to power. They could have engaged in dialogue and diplomacy with Hamas and the Palestinians to figure out something that would work for everyone. They could have negotiated a prisoner swap or something for the hostages.

But Israel, specifically Likud and the right-wing parties, have no interest in this. They want all of Palestine gone, and to control it all themselves.

[–] oakey66 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention that Hamas had accepted the 1967 borders back in 2017 and it was Netanyahu who rejected it. Hamas is a pet project by Netanyahu to divide Palestinians in Gaza from the West Bank. He’s helped nurture and support them as a means to do more land grabs and expand Israel’s territorial grip. So the starting point has to be a full withdrawal of the occupation, the ability for Palestinians to have a democratic government that is free from Israeli influence, and the restoration of the 1967 borders. The withdrawal of all Israeli settlers from within Palestinian borders.

[–] Iceblade02 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You leave out that in the same statement, Hamas denied the statehood of Israel, indicating that they wanted Israel to make huge one-sided concessions, without making any concessions of their own.

[–] oakey66 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because Israel has been literally stealing land while demanding Palestinians give up more.

Edit: added context.

They literally started a land grab in 2017.

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2017/50-years-illegal-settlements/index.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They can also currently stop protecting murderers in the west bank. So we don't have to ask how did a radical movement take power there a couple of years from now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dealing with this situation logically doesn't work, because it's not logic that got it started.

Both sides have majority support for essentially exterminating the other side.

Add to the fact that both sides are receiving massive external support in order for those external nations to wage a proxy war against each other, and it's just a shit show all around.

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

You’re right, logic didn’t start the current conflict. The British did when they disarmed Palestinians and armed and trained Zionist paramilitaries. This enabled the Zionists to forcibly evict hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign. The pace at which Palestinians are being displaced has slowed but it has never stopped. While Palestinian resistance movements have received outside support it pales in comparison to the military support Israel receives from the US and other western countries. This conflict is unfortunately very one sided.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you think Arabs and Jews fighting started with the British, you'd be a thousand years late to the party.

Changing the balance of the power did not start the conflict.

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

Okay so you’re just going to ignore the hundreds of years of relative peace in the region under Ottoman rule immediately preceding WWI?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So peaceful.... Multiple massacres and entire towns getting sacked for being Jewish sure doesn't sound like peaceful to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Ottoman_Empire#Antisemitism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Yishuv

The Ottomans lost in WWI, and the empire got split up. It's not surprising that non-Muslim groups in the area got control of some of the parts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Got control” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. You can’t just paper over British involvement and the hundreds of Palestinian villages that were destroyed in a mass ethnic cleansing campaign by Zionists. This was clearly a dramatic escalation in any religious or ethnic violence that occurred in the region as compared to years prior. You can’t just ignore that and expect anyone to think you’re discussing the issue in good faith.

Speaking of which, Palestine under Ottoman rule was more peaceful. The wiki articles you linked don’t even reference massacres happening in Palestine. So your point is moot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes they do...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1660_destruction_of_Safed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1660_destruction_of_Tiberias

The British didn't start this shit. Not even close.

Who started it is moot though, neither side wants to peacefully end this so they're going to keep fighting.

You think that if the west stops supporting Israel that Hamas is just going to stop attacking? That's naïve as fuck. Hamas with Iran's support will just push into Israel and the table will just be tilted the other way instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s all you can come up with? An event that happened 288 years before the events of 1948? That’s supposed to disprove what I said about relative peace in the region for hundreds of years? You have to be kidding me.

Also saying the British had no role to play is just an outright lie. Who controlled Palestine from 1920-1948 I wonder? Could it have been an empire know for stoking sectarian conflict in order to further their own agenda, most famously in 1947 with the partitioning of India? This isn’t rocket science. It’s historical fact.

That said, the war crimes Israel is committing, the children they are killing, the collective punishment they are enforcing right now are not a rational response to Hamas. You can’t tried to murder and ethnically cleanse a people from their land and expect them to not be radicalized in the process. What Israel has been doing, what it is currently doing, will only make things worse for everyone including their own citizens.

If you can’t see that then you’re either blinded by propaganda or your own bloodlust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whats the rational response to Hamas then? Overwhelm them with aid?

If either side eliminates the other, peace will happen. That's generally how wars have worked through history. Even the ottomans didn't expand without conquering.

We act all morally enlightened these days, but we really aren't. We're just talking from the comfort of far away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you’re describing is genocide plain and simple. If I really have to explain to you why genocide is not a solution there really is no hope for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes it is Genocide, from both sides. That tends to happen in wars.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_genocide: The War and Genocide school of thought encompasses the vast majority of scholars and contends that those killed in war can be considered victims of genocide. Scholars in this school reference the genocidal capacities of certain methods of war, such as nuclear weapons, pattern-, fire-, and carpet-bombing, or other indiscriminate strategies, as the use of genocidal violence.

War may not be the best solution, but given that both sides want to exterminate the other, I'm not sure what compromise you expect until one side is weakened enough that they are forced to give up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel could stop being an apartheid state and stop illegally occupying Palestinian land and imprisoning millions of gazans and hamas would no longer be a political force. Because hamas is a violent reaction to colonial violence after nonviolent reactions failed for decades.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This isn't exactly an answer for how it could have been handled, but it's got a lot of great info on the complicated factors at play.

Causes of the war https://youtu.be/zMxHU34IgyY

Israel's reaction/overreaction https://youtu.be/B4H95DlII2s

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[–] rdri 2 points 1 year ago

I find it sad that everyone expects something from Israel. Why does Israel have to handle this and not anyone else? Why hamas can't handle this? For example they could surrender to prevent any further suffering of their people.

[–] randon31415 -1 points 1 year ago

Get a peace-keeping force made up of Iranians. If missiles are still being shot from Gaza after that, Israel can go to war with Iran and cut out the middle-man.