DarkGamer , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

The peace terms they dont like is gaza gets exterminated. ... Israel will accept no peace that includes palestinians existing.

The alternative is Dahiya Doctrine continues:

the destruction of the civilian infrastructure of regimes deemed to be hostile as a measure calculated to deny combatants the use of that infrastructure and endorses the employment of "disproportionate force" to secure that end.

It's not about extermination/killing, if that were their goal there would be no Palestine. Israel certainly has the means to turn the entire place into rubble immediately if maximizing civilian deaths were their goal as you claim. Although collateral damage certainly happens in Dahiya strikes, they are clearly calculated to provide both carrots and sticks to disincentivize violence and protect themselves, not to kill the most civilians possible.

However, I suspect annexing land from Hamas controlled Gaza probably is their goal at this point. That seems totally reasonable given that:

• Hamas was elected the leadership of Gaza in 2006
• Hamas is currently in control of Gaza
• Hamas has in their original charter calls for genocide against Jews, and that Jihad, not diplomacy, is the only solution to their situation
• Gaza has remained a violently hostile neighbor since Palestine attacked their Jewish neighbors in 1948 and lost that war, then lost many others yet refused to concede.
• Israeli unilateral disengagement from Gaza in 2005, rather than reducing tensions, allowed Hamas to launch an attack that killed hundreds of civilians.

If the leadership of next town over kept on killing civilians in my town with guerilla attacks, was constantly defeated in conventional conflicts, yet refused to negotiate for viable peace, a reasonable person would want that hostile population moved away from them for safety and security. Is this genocide? I don't think so, because the goal is not to destroy an ethnic group (20% of Israeli citizens with full rights are of Palestinian/Arab descent.) it is to keep a hostile foreign territory from literally killing your people. It is annexation of territory, which is a consequence of war.

Just as there were many innocent civilians in Nazi Germany that suffered because of the regime that was in charge there, so too are Gazans suffering because the government they live under started conflicts they could not hope to win. Just as things got better for Germany when they pacified themselves, so too could they improve for Palestine, but only if concessions are made. Otherwise they will keep losing and things will be made worse and worse until they are left with nothing. I hope they are willing to surrender and negotiate for peace before then, because this is not a war they can win militarily.