• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, but because amongst all those people killed by the Israeli army in the very place they told them to shelter, there isn’t a nice looking western girl with glamour pictures on social networks, the murder of those people will never cause the same disgust in the West as the plight of the girl kidnapped by Hamas which has been turned into a constantly repeated Israeli propaganda piece (you can tell it’s now being pushed as propaganda because it’s been repeated well beyond its newsworthiness and always with the same glamour picture).

    The gapping chasm in numbers between those murdered by Israel and those by Hamas is inverted in terms of the disgust they cause in the West exactly because Israeli has a vastly superior propaganda machine.

    Thinking people would start wondering why, reliably, 100s of murdered palestinians are portrayed with less emphasys than 1 kidnapped israeli-german teenager.

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      See, on the one hand you’re validly calling out sensationalism and propaganda, but on the other you’re kind of going further the other way. She wasn’t kidnapped, she was murdered and her corpse mutilated, paraded and spat on. And it isn’t her vs 100s of murdered Palestinians, she is but a figurehead representing hundreds dead in Israel.

      In any case, tallying up which side did what and who was worse really isn’t productive here, it won’t lead to any useful kind of resolution. The issue isn’t what they do, because at this point they’ve pretty much done it all before. The issue is that people on both sides keep doing it.

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        Agreed. There’s only one solution. The UN needs to disarm both sides, depose their governments and make the whole area a UN protectorate. Remove any illegal settlements. Try anyone on both sides involved in war crimes or human rights violations.

        Israel and Palestine can not behave like grown ups? Take away their toys and put them in time out.

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          A foreign military occupation of an entire region in the Middle East to ensure peace.

          Does anyone remember how this one goes?

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          Absolutely agree. The two sides need to be separated and put in time out.

          However disarming Israel is politically impossible when they’re a cyber weapons super power.

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          Yeah, nobody has quite the strength even for these two sides. First, war is not a linear application of resources, it’s unpredictable. Second, that’d be a precedent every nation with conflicts would try to prevent, and such nations are usually the strongest. Third, we’ve all seen over the years how well UN missions, peacekeepers etc work.

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          This is the most historically ignorant comment I’ve seen this past week. There have been multiple wars in the past century where Arab nations were the aggressor and had the stated goal of genociding the Jews in Israel. Also, the last time the UN actually did something approaching that scale was the Korean War. Absolutely nothing since. They’re incapable of defending an entire nation.

          Any plan that involves the disarmament of Israel is just a plan for genocide. Educate yourself, you’re unbelievably ignorant yet you have access to the internet.

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            I mean they can also just keep bombing and torturing each other for the next 100 years, it’s been working so well so far.

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          Even if you force Israel to become one single country with both jews and palestinians, there will still be alahuakbar fireworks constantly

          Both sides do not want coexistence and that means that gaza et al becomes a slaughter house that everyone ignores

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        You’re acting like we’re just talking about “actions” that people are “doing.”

        What you’re ignoring is the apartheid society created by Israel. They’re directly responsible for the conditions that foster this type of response.

        This isn’t a “both sides are just as bad” thing. One of these groups has been horrifically oppressed and kept in the largest open-air prison on the planet for nearly 100 years. Any time Hamas has attacked Israeli soldiers (you know, because they’re literally kicking them out of their family homes they’ve lived in for generations. Which is genocide btw), Israel has responded by slaughtering hundreds to thousands of Palestinian (not Hamas) civilians. It’s completely disproportionate.

        I’m not defending or justifying, just trying to explain.

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          I wasn’t really ignoring it, merely addressing the point that was raised.

          I’ve said this elsewhere, but going through and trying to tally up who’s done what and which side is worse is pretty much a futile exercise. It won’t lead to any useful resolution. They’ve been going at it for so long, both sides have done horrific things that were disproportionate responses to the other side. They’ve pretty much done it all. The bigger issue is less what they do, more that they both keep doing it.

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            They’ve been going at it for so long, both sides have done horrific things that were disproportionate responses to the other side.

            This just is not true. There is a massively imbalanced power dynamic there. They’ve been keeping the Palestinian population in an open-air prison for at least half a century. They’re literally incapable of responding disproportionately to what Israel is constantly doing to them. They don’t have the resources or freedom of movement.

            Just look up the casualty statistics on both sides since at least since the end of WW2. It’s been some time since I’ve looked at them, but we’re talking at least one (possibly more) order of magnitude difference between the two.

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              They’re literally incapable of responding disproportionately to what Israel is constantly doing to them.

              I would say raiding towns and villages and beheading babies is a disproportionate response to anything.

              There is definitely a power imbalance, and Israel has probably killed more Palestinians overall than the other way around. However, Israel have also shown some measure of restraint up until now - they’ve never completely eradicated Palestine, as Palestinians frequently claim to want for Israelis and have previously attempted to do, even though Israel actually could. Israel has definitely not shown enough restraint, but they’ve shown more than they would likely face if the balance of power was the other way around.

              There’s also the twisted mess of politics. Members of the government of Israel have at many times over the years promoted the support of terrorist groups in Palestine as a way of destabilising Palestine as a nation. So, even while the actions of Hamas on Saturday were horrific and unforgiveable, some Israelis have actively been encouraging this kind of thing.

              Like I say, tallying up who’s done what doesn’t really get you anywhere. Both have done horrific and unforgiveable things. It’s like comparing shit covered apples to shit covered oranges, you can talk about the differences as much as you like - and you might even be correct in everything you say - but at the end of the day the biggest problem is that they’re both covered in shit.

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                The IDF are no saints. They’ve done some awful awful things. Including targeting clearly marked medics and press, and murdering children for throwing rocks at them.

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                  Yep, it is relatively easy to find video of IDF humiliating and torturing young people at checkpoints or around their home in the most cowardly manner on earth, seriously it was hard to see.

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              It seems to fit to you because your initial operating assumption is that you should support the terrorists here and everything else you believe is distorted to meet those expectations.

              For instance, Israel told the civilians to move to the city of 120k people that is called a refugee camp, but is in fact a full on 80 year old city, and fourteen people died in an airstrike on a Hamas position.

              But you didn’t Google the city “camp” or look past the claims at all, because your initial assumption is “Israel bad, Hamas good.”

              You are indeed defending terrorists who kill families of civilians with no overarching military goal in mind at all.

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                no one says hamas is good. but they don’t need to be in order for israel to be bad.

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                It seems to fit to you because your initial operating assumption is that you should support the terrorists here and everything else you believe is distorted to meet those expectations.

                You know nothing about me, and fuck you for making an accusation like that. Shameful.

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                  I know what you state, and that’s what you stated.

                  If that offends you, take a long look in the mirror and sort your life out

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                  Terrorism is indeed when you kill civilians with no military aim in mind. Invading a country specifically to murder their families in their homes is absolutely terrorism.

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        See, on the one hand you’re validly calling out sensationalism and propaganda, but on the other you’re kind of going further the other way. She wasn’t kidnapped, she was murdered and her corpse mutilated, paraded and spat on. And it isn’t her vs 100s of murdered Palestinians, she is but a figurehead representing hundreds dead in Israel.

        You know, google for “Anush Apetyan” and consider that Israel is Azerbaijan’s main military supplier after Russia, and almost an ally, and nothing from what Azerbaijani troops are doing (just the same Hamas stuff) seems to have any effect.

        Also Israel is a genocide-denier state. Israelis on the Web like to behave all cynical and realpolitik-enjoying and “what are you going to do” on subjects similar to what Hamas has done in Sderot etc.

        I’d say there is an element of crocodile tears in this.

        Action should be taken to prevent anybody doing anything like this again, to Israelis or anybody else, but that doesn’t mean Israel somehow got moral. Promoting that would be exploiting events for propaganda.

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          Action should be taken to prevent anybody doing anything like this again, to Israelis or anybody else, but that doesn’t mean Israel somehow got moral. Promoting that would be exploiting events for propaganda.

          Absolutely agreed. Israel is justified in some measure of response, to prevent future attacks and rescue hostages. They are not justified in the bombing of Gaza that they’ve been doing instead.

          The point I was making though is that using Shani Louk as some kind of figurehead is in no way disingenuous. It’s somewhat unfair that Palestine doesn’t have similar figureheads of their own to garner support (and indeed this is a direct result of Israel blocking media access), but that doesn’t mean that what happened to Shani isn’t a valid symbol of everything that was wrong with the attack on Saturday.

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        The only reason it’s not productive, in your opinion, is because it makes the side you support look REALLY fucking bad.

        “Why can’t we all come together and forget the 6+ decades of horrific oppression and wildly disproportionate warfare, and all just get along?”

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          No, the reason it’s not productive to dig through all the atrocities is that, provided you keep at least something of an open mind, you’ll quickly get sick of both sides and not even want to bother finding any solution.

          Both sides have indiscriminately murdered civillians and children. They might have done it in different ways, one side might have managed to kill more than the other, but they’ve both done barbaric things.

          I don’t support either “side” in this.

          “Why can’t we all come together and forget the 6+ decades of horrific oppression and wildly disproportionate warfare, and all just get along?”

          This kind of strawman statement confirms that you aren’t arguing in good faith, you’ve only come here to spew bullshit.

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        tallying up which side did what and who was worse really isn’t productive here

        rephrased…“Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who”. Serious conversation and that is what my mind locks on. Go figure.

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        Two points:

        • As her mother is calling for news about her I’ll go with her belief of “not dead” until proven otherwise given how the poor girl has been turned into a - as you so well put - “figurehead” for propaganda. I confess I’m one of those weird people who prefers to believe that others are merelly “kidnapped” rather than dead.
        • I’m glad you’re beginning to start to get my point about the use of figureheads to make the smaller number of people murderer on one side seem more disgusting to a western audience than the much larger number of deaths on the other side. That’s exactly how propaganda works: turn individual humans into symbols and parade their horrible fate as justification to kill lots of those “other” humans most of whom are blamed by association.
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      Yeah, everyone is focusing on the brutality of Hamas’ murders instead of the numbers.

      I’m sure Hamas would be using airstrikes against Israel, if they could.

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      War is horrible and the granparents of today’s Palestinians were unjustly hunted and hurt. But if Hamas had not gone on slaughter spree on civilians and their fighters would not be hiding behind their their own kids and women to protect themselves from retaliation, maybe the fight would take place strictly between combatants or even better, on the social media and internet to show what’s wrong.
      And no, it doesn’t matter whether kid is EU, Arabian or any other looking. When there was earthquake not long ago, everyone was sympathetic with middle east looking kids being pulled out of debris.

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        The “human shields” reasoning has been circulating for at least a decade. “Look, we had to kill the civilians, the militants were hiding behind them!” I don’t know on what planet that reasoning is supposed to be acceptable.

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          War or killing is never acceptable. Unfortunately in this case it seems less of the two evils due to Hammas making sure everyone can see what atrocities they are capable off instead of showing world what Palestinians hardship is like.

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          Its 2023, we catch the American government trying to cover this shit up all the time https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/18/us/airstrikes-pentagon-records-civilian-deaths.html

          Why are so many people willing to believe “Hamas uses human shields” without even a shred of evidence? How is acceptable to keep funding and arming Israel when there is no accountability for how they use those weapons?

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            Can you prove they are not? Like where in the Gaza is their military base e.g. ? If they aren’t mixed in Civilian where the hell are they? Also acts like murdering kids don’t really add them any credibility. To me it looks rather that their fighting tactics is trying to exploit the fact that enemy is not so willing to shoot at civilians as they are to shoot combatants.

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              can you prove that they’re not?

              That’s not how this works dawg. You can’t commit war crimes and expect everyone to be cool with it if you’re not providing evidence to back your claims of “they took human shields, there’s nothing we could do”

              If they’re not mixed in Civilian where the hell are they?

              If they don’t know where Hamas is, if they don’t have evidence, then what is the plan? To level all of Palestine?

              Remember when the US thought Iraq had WMDs? Woulda been nice if we like… had evidence first right? Coulda saved a lot of money and lives, no?

              the enemy is not so willing to shoot civilians

              Wtf are you talking about? You’re literally spreading the propaganda that has allowed Israel to kill 36x as many children as Palestinians have killed

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                They took the hostages and killed tons of people , it’s all over security cameras, there are witnesses, people from German and other countries recognized those hostages as their family member. Hammas posted video of dealing with those hostages. Hostages are women, kids and men. Are you saying that is not hiding behind the kids and women? I have tons of proofs to believe they do this.

                You got only “Nana they are actually good people”
                So that it actually how this not works… That’s why I gave you opportunity to present evidence that Hammas is not lowest scam in the region. You presented nothing.

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                  I have tons of proofs to believe they do this.

                  To be clear, I also think Hamas took hostages. I just don’t think most people consider that “being a human shield” unless there is imminent danger to the hostage taker.

                  You got only “Nana they are actually good people”

                  You realize that you can’t prove a negative empirically?

                  I’ll prove Hamas isn’t using human shields when you prove the tooth fairy don’t exist.

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        There’s been an earthquake just a few days ago in Afghanistan, Pakistan etc, killing more than 2000 people, and by your comment I can see you don’t even know about it.

        And I was arguing against Hamas immediately after it happened, but now I’m arguing against Israel because the original comment is right, they have now adjusted all their propaganda tools to use the events to justify ethnic cleansing with lots of civilian dead right now.

        Gazan women and children are not responsible for “their fighters” or Hamas, just as Israeli women and children are not responsible for bombs falling on Gaza.

        I’m disgusted with both, but proportionally to their strength.

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          just as Israeli women

          They could be part of IDF as military service is mandatory for every israeli whatever the gender (~3y for men and 2y for women).

          so don’t speak in term of gender but in term of class.

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            Strictly speaking, there are very few women in the combat units of the IDF.

            But yes, you understood me correctly. I meant civilians.

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          You missed my point or are trying to twist it.
          I have not said that world is informed about everything that happens everywhere all the time. I have said that people feel sad for any hurt kid regardless of colour of their skin and I gave an example which you totally ignored. I could very well blame you for bad things happening to the kids in Mexico or Latin America in general if you aren’t informed about that but that would be stupid wouldn’t it?

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            The feel sad on different levels. For some kinds of sad billions of military aid are warranted, and for other kinds of sad thoughts and prayers, and there are even situations of “sad, but they had it coming”.

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              You forgot to mention that in some places if you come with aid your lifeless body gets paraded half naked through the streets on pickup truck and spitted on or mutilated on spot.

              You also forgot to mention that while EU people feel sorry for suffering of all kids. Some places you talk about celebrate death of every caucasian looking kid as new year event.

              It might be one of the reason why some place don’t get e.g. international humanitarian help.

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          And Germans caused WW2 that had mutliple times higher dead count than all Palestinians together. Yet I don’t see countries like Polland going terrorist against German civilians. The way you think is best, (kill as many children as brutal as possible) will only lead to more casaulties but it won’t make life any better for Palestina’s civilians.

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      From the article’s sub headline: ”Palestinians in Beit Hanoun were instructed by Israeli army to leave their homes and head for city centre. Hours later, the city centre was targeted”

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        Because Israel is fucking evil. Not Jews. Israel.

        Why is Israel evil?

        Extensive grooming by America.

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            Boiling it down to the system that has been in place for the last 30-40 years? Yes they do.

            They take the money. They take the weapons. They are told to use the weapons. They use the weapons on Palestine.

            Here, maybe I won’t get completely eviscerated for this one. Israel is Vader. The US is Palpatine.

            Israel was never forced to turn evil, but the US has the carrot and Israel keeps reaching for it.

            As a result, they have spent decades torturing and murdering innocent people. Small wonder a resistance formed.

            Now flash back to Iraq. America made Osama Bin Laden a national hero. America’s existence is the result of guerrilla warfare. I was taught by American education that America did it first. I know we didn’t.

            Anyway, America went into Iraq, helped install Saddam, rewarded Osama for being effective in installing Saddam, then Al Queda started doing things we didn’t like and we got stuck in war with Iraq for decades.

            The parallels between America’s involvement with Iraq and America’s involvement with Israel are astounding to me.

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              Huh? Osama bin Laden was 11 when Saddam Hussein became vice president of Iraq. He was in university when the president resigned and Hussein became president and then was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan during the early years of his rule. Al-Qaeda had no presence in Iraq before the US invasion - and didn’t even exist until a decade after Hussein became president.

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                I love you.

                Let’s start here. You’re a great fact checker.

                Osama Bin Laden was celebrated by the Regan administration for uprooting soviet interests in the region, no?

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            The thing about that is there never was an era where war crimes were punished consistently.

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              In fact the modern post-WW2 era is about as good as it gets. And that is indeed not much.

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                  I think generally it’s more akin to your average legal proceedings. The plebs who commit war crimes will face the full extent of the law, but when wealthy entities or nations do it they will often get away with it.

                  When it comes to charging the losers, even with the Nazis and the Nuremburg trials there was a significant amount of opposition from people within the Allied nations against prosecuting them. Actually, in an article about Ben Ferencz (the guy who worked hardest to make the Nuremburg trials happen) I read about a Nazi tried in the UK, Winston Churchill personally donated towards this Nazi’s defense and then had his execution commuted down to life, then later only ~20 years. By the end of the war Churchill was vehemently against the Soviets and chomping at the bit to invade them, I think this gave him sympathy towards Nazis who had been fighting Soviets. I’ve since been unable to find the guy’s name, though.

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            The playbook is to just claim its propaganda. The internet is so supersaturated the average person can’t vet it as true or false.

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    Crosspost Comment from another related news article:

    Don’t tell me that Hamas didn’t know how Israel would react. To keep the hate flowing is the goal of all extremists.

    Edit: That Netanyahu openly admitted to support Hamas on some occasions, shows that Hamas AND Netanjahu want each other as permanent enemies: https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/526488/Anyone-who-wants-to-thwart-the-establishment-of-a-Palestinian

    Since many of you seem to think of themselves as having viable solutions for the Israel/Palestine conflict- go ahead: Tell us how Israel should act after this Terrorist Attack.

    Please refrain from bad faith arguments and stuff like „Israel should dissolve itself“ (because you and I know, that’s not going to happen)

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          We can talk about whataboutism

          You’re not talking about whataboutisim you’re doing a whataboutisim. Israel is an apartheid state. If Israel want’s to stop the violence they can get their settlers out of the west bank. They can give back Gaza. Until they get the fuck out of Palestinian land I can’t blame the Palestinians for fighting to get them out.

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            If Israel want’s to stop the violence they can get their settlers out of the west bank.

            Somewhat naive to think that will stop the violence. Israel was withdrawing through the 90s as part of the Oslo Process, which ended with the Second Initifada. There are substantial populations on both sides that want the other side gone from that land completely, and they will take any opportunity to further entrench themselves and stoke conflict.

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              Israel was withdrawing through the 90s as part of the Oslo Process, which ended with the Second Initifada.

              Look at the Israeli terms of the Camp David summit and you’ll get why the Intifada happened. These are terms no self-respecting state would accept.

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                The US & Israelis were still hoping Arafat would come back to the table until the Intifada broke out. Peace takes time and some weren’t willing to give it the time it needed.

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                  The US & Israelis were still hoping Arafat would come back to the table until the Intifada broke out.

                  Israel was pretty clear about what they wanted, and that was not a real, self-sufficient Palestinian state. If you need proof of that, take a look at the modern West Bank. Israel actively funded Hamas in the early 90s to weaken the Palestinian peace movement, and would later take many such actions to divide Palestinians and prevent peace from happening.

                  The last time the Israeli government seriously considered a two-state solution was in 1947.

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                Better? No. People much more experienced in negotiation and more knowledgeable of the history than you or I have tried for decades. The Arab League rejected the first offer, which remains to this day the best offer, in a UN vote. They never wanted Israel to exist and they still don’t, and yet it does. Compromise is not a solution here; the British knew that in 1948 when they refused to enforce the partition plan. I hope to be proven wrong some day, but from my perspective, the only solution is for one side to win.

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                  I dk man, sounds like a cop out. I’m pretty sure if Israel just stopped doing war crimes hamas would eventually lose support in Palestine.

                  Laying back and embracing the final solution your proposing just doesn’t seem like the right call.

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              With that logic there is no solution and Israel is justified in depopulating Gaza entirely.

              OK so just to be clear I said “Israel needs to stop taking what isn’t theirs” and you said “nah they should just kill everyone”. And people still don’t know which side is wrong here?

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          All I see are people referring to the fact that there are so many comments where people are “praising the attacks,” and “cheering on the slaughter,” yet I haven’t actually seen any. Only comments complaining about them.

          I’ve seen people making nuanced points about the realities of the situation there prior to this attack. For maybe 60 years or so. But not a single comment celebrating the attack.

          It’s almost as if there’s a coordinated attempt online to frame this situation a certain way, and they are straight up lying about “all of these people cheering the attack on.” Hmmm, wonder why anyone would do that?

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          I see a whole lot of the Palestinian supporters cheering on the slaughter of Israeli citizens

          Funny, the last guy who claimed this couldn’t produce any evidence, it’s almost like you’re gaslighting.

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      They can’t solve this problem themselves. The UN has to step in as per my other comment. The no-state solution.

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        Whose army is going to disarm them? You have a lot of faith in the U.N here to not fuck this up even worse than it is now

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        Except every time the UN attempts to even condemn Israel’s illegal settlements and war crimes, the US vetoes it. Because we have that power for some reason.

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      Don’t tell me that Hamas didn’t know how Israel would react.

      Literally nobody told you that. I guarantee all you’ve seen up to this point are people saying exactly what you’re saying.

      🦜

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      Edit: That Netanyahu openly admitted to support Hamas on some occasions, shows that Hamas AND Netanjahu want each other as permanent enemies: https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/526488/Anyone-who-wants-to-thwart-the-establishment-of-a-Palestinian

      Since many of you seem to think of themselves as having viable solutions for the Israel/Palestine conflict- go ahead: Tell us how Israel should act after this Terrorist Attack.

      You just hinted at the start of a possible solution. Israelis need to stop voting for warmongering criminals like Netanyahu who have zero desire to see peace. The people in Gaza? They don’t get to vote.

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    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. https://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.

    1920: San Remo conference decisions, rejected.

    1922: League of Nations decisions, rejected.

    1937: Peel Commission partition proposal, rejected.

    1938: Woodhead partition proposal, rejected

    1947: UN General Assembly partition proposal (UNGAR 181), rejected.

    1949: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNGAR 194), rejected.

    1967: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNSCR 242), rejected.

    1978: Begin/Sa’adat peace proposal, rejected (except for Egypt).

    1994: Rabin/Hussein peace agreement, rejected by the rest of the Arab League (except for Egypt).

    1995: Rabin’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.

    2000: Barak/Clinton peace offer, rejected.

    2001: Barak’s offer at Taba, rejected.

    2005: Sharon’s peace gesture, withdrawal from Gaza, rejected.

    2008: Olmert/Bush peace offer, rejected.

    2009 to 2021: Netanyahu’s repeated invitations to peace talks, rejected.

    2014: Kerry’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.

    Not gonna link Trump’s imbecilic peace plan as an example.

    Here is a list of peace offers the Palestinians offered to Israel -

    None

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      The general take on Lemmy is: it’s okay for Palestinians to become extremists after decades of violence, but for Israelis? no no no sir.

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          Has it ever occurred to you some people are independent and therefore don’t always subscribe to a single tribe?

          Probably not, because you’re a tribalist projecting your tribalism onto literally everyone else.

          In your mind, people are with you or against you. There is no nuance.

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      Look at the Native Americans for an example of a colonized population that accepted the terms of their colonizers.

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        Still alive???
        Also how is it comonization? According to both religions both own the land. One party accepts the other while the other wants to kill all jews because of my god is bigger.
        I will never accept antisemitism.

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      I tried finding that video - but I cannot find it in the article. Could you provide a link?

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        According to one religious book it is and according to another religious book it isnt.
        This argument is boring. depending on how far back in time we go it is or isn’t.

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            Not the argument here. Good for you for being atheist but Jews and Muslims aren’t. For them it isn’t just a lie. And their beliefs are under protection of almost every developing country so we also have to take in account that their beliefs in this are valid.
            I don’t see any use in them either, but religion is the cause for this 120 year war.
            Being contrarian doesn’t solve this.

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          Islam is based on Judaism. So it’s Jewish land according to both these books

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            No, it’s not. Both are based in the middle East and on Abraham, but they differ wildly.

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        And Palestine is not? What are you on about? Same Brits who gave Palestine their country, decided to give Jews theirs.

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    Hamas are animals. Abducting children and internationals. These last few days have shown they do not deserve sympathy. Watching Palestinians cheer when rockets get launched just proves my point.

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      So instead you are cheering when civilians on the other side are being killed. Great logic. I hope you feel morally superior and can sleep better at night.

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        One simple rule to achieve peace and stability is diplomatic talk. You don’t use violence as answer.

        Attacking civilians is also plain and simple terrorism. Hamas proved with this action they are not worth more than terrorists.

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          Attacking civilians is also plain and simple terrorism

          So we’re in agreement that this is essentially two terrorist states fighting each other? And the biggest losers in all of this will be the innocent Israeli and Palestinian citizens who just want to live their lives in peace. Meanwhile Hamas and the Israeli state get to go back and forth playing the their sick game of race-to-the-bottom-of-the-morality-barrel trying to blow each other to smithereens.

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            If you’re 93 today, then you were about 18 years old when Israel became an autonomous nation (in 1948). Before that time, the Jews in the area were simply terrorists without a state.

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            Yup.

            But don’t forget. They are deploying 1 time use type armament, so they are also getting subsidized to keep weapon makers profitable.

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          One simple rule to achieve peace and stability is diplomatic talk.

          Yeah if it was that simple the region would have peace already. Israel has never seriously considered peace as anything than something to avoid. See: How they funded Hamas in the 90s to take steam out of the Palestinian peace movement.

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            Hamas didnt even exist when Israel funded Mosques and Charity work.

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            In 2014, Israel invaded Gaza and more than 2000 people were killed. Did Israel achieve anything other than radicalising more the local population, I would say no? Violence is never the answer or a recipe for long lasting peace.

            Do you think that if Israel was treating Palestinians better and not causing a humanitarian crisis, the support for Hamas would be so strong?

            Just for perspective, the Hamas army is around 30.000, while the Gaza strip population is around 2,3 million. So that’s 1.3% while people who depend on humanitarian aid in the Gaza strip are 80% and probably this percentage would increase even further. So that’s 1.7Mln people. Not to mention that 123.000 people have been displaced. Not to mention that they don’t have access to clean drinking water, soon would run out of electricity and gas. So I don’t know for you but my mind has trouble trying to process the scale of this humanitarian catastrophe.

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      Cutting off food, water and electricity for 2.3 million people.

      I wonder if people notice the irony of Israel recreating the Warsaw ghetto.

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      So that justifies deliberately targeting civilians? Israel is no better than Hamas.

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      They have been horrifically oppressed for decades.

      They have lived in constant fight for your life squalor while America keeps siphoning money and weapons to Israel, who, in turn, simply tortures Palestine.

      I dont condone it, but I can’t bring myself to fake outrage or surprise.

      America caused this.

      America needs to stop funding terrorists (Israel). It only breeds more terrorists (Hamas).

      And at the end of the day, that was the point.

      There is another armed conflict for American military contractors to cash in on.

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        America needs to stop funding terrorists (Israel). It only breeds more terrorists (Hamas).

        Add to your list that Israel actively funded Hamas in the 90s to take the steam out of the Palestinian peace movement.

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        If the same kind of pressure being put on Hamas was put on the Israeli authorities, the problem with Palestine would’ve been over long ago, just like Appartheid in South Africa has made to end by international pressure, not because the assholes in power in SA woke up one day and decided to the do the morally right thing.

        As long as Israel gets to keep its boot on the necks of Palestinians (worse, activelly helped to do so), there will always be people who are born and grow with nothing to lose for whom even an organisation internationally treated as a terrorist organisation is still a step up.

        I totally agree it’s the US who have maintained this situation, and I also want to add Europe, whose leaders have sided with Israel or assumed the kind of “neutrality” that “peace loving” “tankies” assume with regards to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (i.e. not wanting to help Ukraine).

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          What are you insinuating?

          As far as I know Palestinians have rejected every Offer they have received and only went for the whole destruction of Israel.

          Please correct me if I am wrong.

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            I’m gonna take half your house and if you don’t like it I’ll just try to kill you (royal you this is not a threat). On top of that I’m not just taking half your house down the middle. I’m taking the master bathroom, the en-suite, the kitchen, the study… actually I’m taking both bathrooms you can shit in the garage where you sleep from now on, also you can have the shed I guess. But you’re not allowed in the yard so you can’t actually go to the shed, just look at it and know that it’s yours. I promise I won’t store my tools in there when you’re not looking.

            What’s that? You want a hose to drink from the garden spigot? No, I’ve decided that it’s in appropriate for you to have your own access to water. You can ask me for a cup when you’re thirsty.

            Btw my cousin is moving in next week so you’re gonna have to move your shit to the left side of the garage

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            Have you seen what was in many of those offers? “How about we only steal this much of your land? How about that?”

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        Your worldview is so fucked up. The reason Israel gets support is because if it didn’t, the surrounding Arab nations would have wiped it out, as they have said multiple times.

        It’s like a bully attacks a little kid, and the little kid’s older brother shows up to defend him, and then you saying, “the older brother caused this because he wouldn’t let the bully beat up that little kid!”

        You’ve got it all backwards man. Get help.

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          When the little brother starts slaughtering all of the innocent people who “are totally all bullies” and bombing their homes with impunity for 40 years with virtually no consequence, somewhere over those 40 years, the brothers became the bullies in the neighborhood.

          Start using your brain big boy.

          Stop regurgitating what Fox tells you to.

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        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

        Here’s a video (in the article) where the chief palestinian negotiator explains what was offered in 2008. 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. https://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.

        1920: San Remo conference decisions, rejected.

        1922: League of Nations decisions, rejected.

        1937: Peel Commission partition proposal, rejected.

        1938: Woodhead partition proposal, rejected

        1947: UN General Assembly partition proposal (UNGAR 181), rejected.

        1949: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNGAR 194), rejected.

        1967: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNSCR 242), rejected.

        1978: Begin/Sa’adat peace proposal, rejected (except for Egypt).

        1994: Rabin/Hussein peace agreement, rejected by the rest of the Arab League (except for Egypt).

        1995: Rabin’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.

        2000: Barak/Clinton peace offer, rejected.

        2001: Barak’s offer at Taba, rejected.

        2005: Sharon’s peace gesture, withdrawal from Gaza, rejected.

        2008: Olmert/Bush peace offer, rejected.

        2009 to 2021: Netanyahu’s repeated invitations to peace talks, rejected.

        2014: Kerry’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.

        Not gonna link Trump’s imbecilic peace plan as an example.

        Here is a list of peace offers the Palestinians offered to Israel -

        None