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MrScottyTay ,

Aren’t they going to essentially kill the hostages if they keep up with the seige and bombings?

Fades ,

Fuck Israel but also… let the hostages go

ShroOmeric ,

Going full Nazi at this point.

postmateDumbass ,

Irony has never been much darker.

Akasazh ,
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

atetulo ,

“We’ll kill 2 million people in response to you killing 2,000.”

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

It’s a shitty situation all around.

atetulo ,

It’s shittier for some than others.

skozzii ,

Hamas launches an attack and then dips out while civilians everywhere get slaughtered… cool… cool…

atetulo ,

Well, then Israel has no reason to target Gaza because Hamas isn’t there according to @skozzii

okamiueru ,

Given that they are committing a war crime against 2 million people, which by some definition can be considered hostages… This is quite rich.

lolcatnip ,

Israel: I’ll make my own hostage situation, with blackjack, and hookers!

erranto ,

Now the Ethnic cleansing machine can carry on with the support of the west.

HurlingDurling ,

As an American, I don’t support the response of my government.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Israel literally going to kill 1/3 of the amount of Jews that the Nazi killed and think that isn’t an issue.

arymandias ,

No food, no water, no power, please explain to me how this is not genocide.

jarfil ,

No genetic testing, so not “geno”-cide… /s

Madison420 ,

Geno in genocide isn’t referring to genetics. It’s gene as in genos as in race not religion. Arab Jews and Arab Muslims are the same race so it couldn’t be genocide strictly defined but rather the UN/international definition. And that’s wholely ignoring that race is a social construct not a objective fact and science does not in fact recognize “race” but rather geographic phenotypical derivation.

These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.[1][2]

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Because all of that can still be imported through the Egyptian border? Israel isn't supplying the state that just declared war on them with resources, not intentionally starving all of Gaza to death like you seem to be implying.

medgremlin ,

If you read the article you can see that Egypt has been prevented from delivering aid by the ongoing missile strikes.

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Cairo says it will allow aid to be delivered through its border to Gaza

The Gaza side was temporarily damaged due to air strikes. In the meantime aid is being flown in.

In a statement, Egypt states that it did not close its side of the crossing, and calls on all countries and international organizations in the region to provide humanitarian aid to Gazans by flying it through the El-Arish airport in northern Sinai, located about 56 kilometers (35 miles) from the Rafah crossing. source

medgremlin , (edited )

When you’re talking about getting food, fuel, and water to more than 2 million people, air drops are not going to be remotely sufficient. Convoys of full size trucks might not be enough. 2 to 3 liters of water per person per day adds up really fast.

Edit: Just for fun, I looked up the capacity of tanker trucks to see how many they would need to get enough drinking water to the civilians in Gaza at a rate of 3 liters per person per day, assuming a population of 2.3 million and a tanker capacity of 60k liters. (Keep in mind, this does not account for water needed for hygiene or food preparation, etc.) It turns out that they would need to bring in 115 tanker trucks a day to keep the civilian population supplied with adequate drinking water. Or, y’know, Israel could turn the water back on.

mwguy ,

Damn, it really sucks that Has dig up water pipelines to turn into rockets at this point.

arymandias ,

Gaza is not a state, it does not have any of the rights normal countries have, it’s an open-air prison managed by Israel. And it is currently under naval blockade by Israel, so even if Gaza was a state it would still be a war crime.

Pasta4u ,

A prison you can leave at anytime isn’t a prison. They can all seek asylum in egypt

arymandias ,

You are talking about ethnic cleansing here my friend. Making a situation so hostile and violent that a population needs to flee their homeland.

Pasta4u ,

It’s a tale as old as time. The other alternative is every few years Hamas attacks Isreal and they carpet bomb Gaza for a few days or weeks.

HurlingDurling ,

Not to mention the white phosphorus launched by Israel

sushibowl ,

The Gaza strip has been systematically economically destroyed for over 20 years. The border with Israel has been strictly controlled since Hamas came to power in 2007. Israel does not allow goods to cross the Gaza-Egypt border directly, everything must go through Israel. There are only 2 border crossings, and all import and export is strictly controlled. Import of any goods marked “dual-use” (possibly useful for both military and civilian) is limited. About 80% of business in the Gaza strip has closed doors since the blockade began. Even “internal” trade is hampered by the blockade. Palestinian fishermen in Gaza, who want to sell their fish to Palestinians in the west bank, are restricted by a fish export quotum imposed by Israel. This quotum was halved by Israel last year, cutting income of the fishermen in half.

Infrastructure is periodically destroyed. In accordance with peace accords from the nineties, a seaport was being constructed in Gaza with European funding. However, in 2001 Israeli tanks destroyed the construction site, and bombed the site again several months later. European companies then pulled out of the project. Since 2007 Israel blockades the Gaza strip fully by sea also. A similar fate befell the Palestinian airport: the radar station and control tower were bombed, and bulldozers have cut the runways, rendering it inoperable.

Furthermore, Israel collects tax on behalf of the Palestinian state. These taxes form about 60-70% of Palestine’s income. Israel regularly suspends payments as “punishment” for terrorist attacks. It also keeps part of the taxes collected for itself before transferring the remainder to Palestine. The amount withheld was doubled last year by the Israeli minister of finances.

Another important source of income for Palestinians is labor in Israel. Palestinians are used as a source of cheap labour by Israel in the construction, industrial, and agricultural sectors. When the current war broke out, most of the workers were arrested and deported to the West Bank, even though they actually live in the Gaza strip. Some are stuck there while their families in Gaza die in the retaliatory bombardments.

rockSlayer ,

I feel like this is Netanyahu’s final solution.

postmateDumbass ,

He gets to genocide the Palestunians, the US gets to invade Iran.

Watch.

Chariotwheel ,

What a time to be alive to see millions of people getting starved to death live while world leaders applaud and call it defense.

probablyaCat ,

Honestly this is an awful situation. But the reason you don't see more harsh criticisms from world leaders (and there have been criticisms and statements calling some of what they are doing as illegal) is because the world leaders know that they may need to same option if something similar happens to them.

Do you have a better suggestion for what Israel should do in order to respond. And saying "free Palestine" doesn't count. They completely left Gaza and it got worse. I can't stand Bibi, but he absolutely called it when they were planning to leave Gaza. The blockade of Gaza didn't start until Hamas took over. And do recall Egypt is also blockading.

If Tijuana started launching rockets and attacked thousands of civilians in California, what do think the response would look like? Or if Morocco did the same to Ceuta?

I don't see how this attack ends. I mean it has absolutely destroyed the chance for Gaza reps to be involved in peace talks. Not that there was much chance of that. Honestly, if I had to guess, Israel plans to wipe out all of the higher up Hamas this time in an attempt to bring Gaza back under the PA/Fatah.

But, given the situation is what it is, how do you think the Israeli government should respond?

Chariotwheel ,

I mean. I agree that Hamas are fuckheads and the leaders are very safe somewhere else. They don't care that much about the response. And of course I condemn Hamas' killing of civilians.

Hamas is a tumor that is not interested in lasting peace with Israel. I agree that moderate factions should be governing.

Now, as what Israel should do. It's not easy, I agree. Any option has drawbacks, so there is no good solution, especially at this boiling point.

Keep up the siege, or rather lockdown athat point, but let necessities of life through. Let the Red Cross and other orgnizations help the civilians.

The issue is, that doing this will not lessen the disdain peolle in Gaza have for Israel and become new fertile ground of hatred against Israel. Unless they kill everyone there, at which point the situation is solved. But for what price?

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

let necessities of life through.

Egypt is through their border with Gaza.

TokenBoomer ,

“Free Palestine!”

See, it counts.

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Rewarding their mass murder of civilians by capitulating, surely that will keep them safe.

TokenBoomer ,

It’s a start.

DarkGamer , (edited )
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Incentivizing mass murder, bold move. Next time someone you love gets murdered be sure to give the murderer a gift rather than seeking punishment for them. I'm sure that will improve things and lead to a more safe and fair world.

TokenBoomer ,

You know I I’m right. And history will prove it.

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Your position might have been reasonable two weeks ago. Today, reconciliation with a hostile enemy who is actively murdering and kidnapping your civilians is both inappropriate and foolish.

TokenBoomer ,

I’m a fool then. It’s called settler colonialism. And even if I don’t agree with the methods, who am I to judge those who are oppressed. Israel enabled Hamas. So if you don’t like what they did, blame Israel. It’s not complicated.

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

So if you don’t like what they did, blame Israel. It’s not complicated.

"Look what you made me do!" Screamed the terrorist as he murdered old women, kidnapped innocents to be used as hostages, paraded bloodied bodies through the streets, beheaded babies, and raped civilians in front of their dead friends.

Yeah really compelling. What you support is vile.

TokenBoomer ,

Your bent logic doesn’t work. Was I vile when I nearly cried as I watched a young, barely teen, Palestinian girl pulled from the rubble of her home after it was bombed? If that’s vile, so be it. I stand with Palestine! Not Hamas. Palestine! You stand with Settler Terrorism.

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Was I vile when I nearly cried as I watched a young, barely teen, Palestinian girl pulled from the rubble of her home after it was bombed?

That is worthy of sympathy, what's vile is then saying this justifies mediaeval brutality against civilians. There's a difference between collateral damage and intentionally murdering civilians. Israel goes to great lengths to minimize collateral damage, often giving targets of their strikes advanced warning. If Israel behaved like Hamas, if they went by the same playbook and sought to maximize civilian deaths, there would be no Palestine. The behaviors of these actors are not morally equivalent.

I stand with Palestine! Not Hamas. Palestine!

Palestinians of Gaza elected Hamas, they are the representatives that they chose to represent them. Don't pretend this is an unrelated entity. These attacks were not orchestrated by some clandestine civilians, it was the genocidal government they chose behaving the way they said they would.

TokenBoomer ,

You’ve been brainwashed. You have no understanding of the history of this conflict. I’ll let Richard Boyd Barret explain it. Don’t bother shopping for shoes, you have no legs to stand on.

DarkGamer , (edited )
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Thanks for the link, all respects to Mr. Barret but he is wrong.

"[Israel is saying that] they intend to starve the people of Gaza of food, electricity, water. That is a war crime under the 4th geneva convention."

TokenBoomer , (edited )

Lol. I’m gonna let you cook for a week and see if you feel the same way.

  1. The first article is about Egypt allowing aid despite Israel committing a war crime .
  2. They don’t have to occupy when they can just settle
  3. Who mentioned a flotilla?

If you still feel the same way after the bombings, you might want to start gathering wooden rods… for a bundle, and don’t forget the axe.

probablyaCat ,

Yes. It worked super well to prevent world war 2.

TokenBoomer ,

Conflated logic fallacy. Palestine is not Germany. They’re not asking for Poland. They just want to be left alone.

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

They just want to be left alone.

Then they should probably return to the negotiation table to participate in the peace process willing to make concessions, and stop launching constant guerilla terrorist attacks against civilians, poking the bear. That's the only viable way that they can be left alone. They don't seem interested in going that route and instead seem keen on genocide against an enemy they can't hope to defeat militarily.

Israel withdrew from Gaza and then the Palestinians there elected Hamas, now this happened as a result. Way to incentivize Israel to leave them alone.

TokenBoomer ,

Get informed. Please.

VentraSqwal ,

I mean, they kind of left Gaza. They still send soldiers in there all the time, they still control most of its borders, it’s water, electricity, trash, etc, and they cut those things off all the time. It’s basically an open air prison.

Also, Israel has killed off all higher Hamas members before so that won’t work. And Bibi supported Hamas to prevent a two state solution before so doubt he wants them united under one government. He just wants to do a genocide now, let’s be honest.

As for possible solutions, there’s too much emnity between Israel and Palestine, there probably needs to be a third party at this point, even though one caused the problem in the first place lol. Someone that’s not the US or UK, since Israel is basically their puppet state and the UK caused the initial issues, and not one of the anti-Israel states like Iran. Or maybe it needs to be formed from both groups so that both points of view are represented? Idk. A solution is definitely the hardest part for sure.

charliespider ,

Gotta love how everyone calls Gaza an “open air prison” then go on to blame Israel, totally disregarding the fact that Gaza’s southern border is with Egypt.

VentraSqwal ,

That’s because Egypt isn’t the one who kicked them out of their homes and spread into more land, kickstarting the crisis in the first place.

They definitely should accept more than they have, but we can’t blame Egypt for not wanting literally millions of refugees. No country would want that. Otherwise you end up like Palestine when the Israelis came in, or the Native Americans when British colonists come in.

emax_gomax ,

I’m a little uninformed on the topic but what’s stopping Egypt from taking over the territory? Millions of refugees clearly is a hard prospect but tonnes of land, lots of new citizens to live on it, a wealthy neighbor in Israel, and I have to imagine Israel would be more receptive to Egypt than hamas.

buzziebee , (edited )

Gaza was controlled by Egypt for quite a while. Israel occupied it and the Sinai after the 1967 six day day war. When they returned the Sinai to Egypt they also offered Gaza back as well so it could go back under their control, but Egypt refused as they didn’t want to take on all the Palestinian people who could potentially destabilize Egypt.

Jordan also wouldn’t want the west bank back (not that they really have a claim to it either) because Palestinians in Jordan tried to overthrow the monarchy there.

Now that there’s a Palestinian identity (instead of just a general Arab identity like it used to be) the Palestinians need to have their own self governance and independence. Absorbing the territories and population into other countries isn’t going to be a solution.

Both sides need to cut out the bullshit and negotiate in good faith to find a long term solution. Unfortunately with how entrenched the hate is it’s sadly unlikely to happen. The cycle will continue until both sides want it to stop.

Eccitaze ,
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I think the horrible truth of the matter is that the cycle won’t stop until one side is dead, no matter how much we wish otherwise. There’s just too much bad blood for either side to trust the other, too many old grudges spawning new grudges that in turn result in more bloodshed. I legitimately, honestly, seriously don’t see a peaceful solution–the Israelis won’t give anything up because they (rightly) fear any concessions will simply be used to fuel further attacks by militants until they’re driven out or eradicated, and the Palestinians won’t give anything up because they don’t have anything left to give up, nor do they have anyone who will take them in, so they can’t even leave (which they don’t want to do anyway since they’d been living there for centuries).

The worst part is that deep down, pretty much everyone knows this, and they know that supporting one side means tacitly supporting the genocide and eradication of the other. But nobody in power wants to come out and say it, because admitting you’re supporting genocide is a surefire way to piss off literally everyone. So we get platitudes and high-minded speeches about preventing civilian casualties, and everyone hems and haws while we create our own little Hell on earth.

VentraSqwal ,

I’m addition to all the good info buzziebee gave, It’s too late with Hamas having control of Gaza now. They’re affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt doesn’t want those extremists in their country, they’ve already had issues with them before so I’m pretty sure the MB is illegal in there now.

charliespider ,

Great points, but that doesn’t stop Egypt from allowing food, water, humanitarian aid, etc from being brought into Gaza, but people talk like Israel has 100% control over Gaza’s borders.

Besides, if Gaza and the West Bank were officially the state of Palestine, Israel would have no obligation to allow free passage between Israel and Palestine so it would basically be the same as it is now, although I’m assuming that right now there is also a naval blockade.

VentraSqwal ,

Egypt is offering aid. Israel isn’t happy with that, though.

Presumably, they’d finally have control over their own water, electricity, trash, etc. And international recognition would help them avoid Israel just taking over more land like they have in the past and are currently doing in the West Bank. But it’s complicated. Idk even know if I’m for a one-state or two-state solution. I feel like I keep bouncing between them, because you’re right, there’s still some problems with the two-state solution.

It would be better if they could all share the land in peace, without the settler colonialism. Maybe with some Constitutional guarantee of rights so the more numerous Palestinian population didn’t immediately use their votes to fuck over the Jewish population there as soon as they got the right to vote. But idk, I’m not some doctorate in international and Middle-Eastern relations, I’m just a person who doesn’t like civilian deaths and wants to see it all stop 😔

charliespider ,

I totally agree. I think a separate internationally recognized Palestinian state is the only solution to keep Israel from encroaching on any more land than they have. That’s been offered in the past but turned down by the Palestinians. A separate Palestinian state will also not prevent both sides from firing rockets at each other until the end of time.

jscummy ,

The only reason they can cut off water and power is because Israel provides them with those things. PA has been given money to develop infrastructure, but Hamas chooses to cut up pipes to build rockets and use cement for smuggling tunnels.

archiotterpup ,

PA doesn’t have any power in Gaza.

lolcatnip ,

But the reason you don’t see more harsh criticisms from world leaders (and there have been criticisms and statements calling some of what they are doing as illegal) is because the world leaders know that they may need to same option if something similar happens to them.

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/5eab4b8d-a70b-45fb-9d87-1c7fd8621820.mp4

Silverseren ,

"They completely left Gaza and it got worse."

They left Gaza and then doubled down not only on embargoes, but also on building illegal settlements in West Bank in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention that they are signatories to.

Pasta4u ,

Well in one night Tijuana would be a smoking crater.

probablyaCat ,

Kind of my point.

TokenBoomer ,

Remember the Pig War. Nothing changes.

probablyaCat ,

We let Germany decide? Out of all conflicts about disputed territories that was a weird one to choose.

TokenBoomer ,

I could have used the MILF Squad.

IchNichtenLichten ,
@IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world avatar

It sounds like even the US government is starting to get uneasy about Bibi’s bloodthirsty ways.

“Blinken says “Israel has the right to defend itself”, but adds: “How Israel does this matters.””

theguardian.com/…/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-b…

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Egypt is letting in supplies but they refuse to let Palestineans leave through Egypt.

One of the Egyptian security sources, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters news agency that Egypt rejected the idea of safe corridors for civilians to protect “the right of Palestinians to hold on to their cause and their land”.

Evidently they care more about the political pressure Palestineans provide against Israel than they do keeping their fellow Arabs safe, and they don't want to deal with the negative effects of letting hostile refugees in. (That didn't work out well for Jordan or Lebanon.)

mwguy ,

Egyptians are Africans. - Egypt right now.

Evilcoleslaw ,

They also know that the refugees will probably never be able to return to Gaza if they leave.

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

So innocents must be kept in danger against their will so that they can retain claims to their land. With allies like that who needs enemies?

Evilcoleslaw ,

Alternatively Israel could endeavor not to do things like flatten apartment buildings and whole city blocks.

DarkGamer ,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

If you were in charge of Israel right now, how would you respond? Just sending in troops without air support to pacify Gaza would presumably lead to a lot of deaths like it has in the past.

laylawashere44 ,

Do as Pakistan did when retaking occupied Swat from the Pakistan Taliban. Flood in soldiers and retake the territory. Of course Pakistan knew that their troops would behave themselves in Swat, I think the Israelis are worried what IDF soldiers might get up too.

probablyaCat ,

Yes. Pakistani troops are definitely better trained and more controlled than the Israeli military. That sounds right. Also, you are overlooking some big differences. The civilian population could "easily" leave and did. And the Pakistani Taliban were an organized group of militants more easily separated from the general population.

laylawashere44 ,

No dumbass. What I meant was that the Pakistani Army specifically used natives of KPK in their attack, y’know so that it was certain that they would care about the civilians since they were the soldiers’ own people. Obviously IDF soldiers do not consider Palestinian kin, as proven by the 200 or more Palestinians killed every year. And obviously the IDF couldn’t give 2 shits about their conduct towards the Arabs.

And no the population didn’t leave? Where the fuck did you get that from. It was bloody urban fighting all the way down the valley and up the glaciers and mountain sides. And no how would you separate the Taliban from the civilians, cause they were also mostly locals.

And yes Pakistani troops are better behaved in their own country. As proven by the ongoing military occupation of multiple northern territories as well as a mission to police Karachi. Go to currently occupied, previously Taliban controlled territory, every shop shutter is covered in Praise for the Army.

probablyaCat ,

2.2 million were displaced and put into refugee camps. 1.6 million returned.

Also the IDF has Arab soldiers as well.

laylawashere44 ,

2.2 million compared to the 33 million population of the province of KPK. The same proportion in Gaza would be 120k people. Moreover, the token Arabs in the IDF are not comparable to the likes of the Frontier Corps, the Pakistan Rangers or the IX Corp.

There is a reason that Pakistan eventually fully integrated the ‘federally administered’ tribal areas. Just ask America what happens when you send in a bunch of troops that can’t even begin to pronounce the language, nevermind understand local culture.

circuscritic , (edited )

The Arab states don’t want an influx of refugees, especially if that means a fraction of them will Islamist (Egypt in particular), but they also don’t want to let Israel depopulate Palestinian territory by forced relocation of the residents into their countries.

probablyaCat ,

Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim brotherhood. Egypt has a long history of issues with the Muslim brotherhood. Some of it, in fact, just happened. They are not keen on more of that trouble.

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

Fellas, is it antisemitism if we don’t want kids to starve? 🤔

protist ,

“If Hamas doesn’t return our hostages, we will kill every man, woman, and child in Gaza.”

bernieecclestoned ,

Egypt could let them in but:

One of the Egyptian security sources, who asked not to be identified, said Egypt rejected the idea of safe corridors for civilians to protect “the right of Palestinians to hold on to their cause and their land”.

Does dying on their land really help their cause?

reuters.com/…/egypt-discussing-plans-provide-aid-…

Evilcoleslaw ,

It’s probably because they know they won’t be temporary refugees. If they leave Gaza they will never be allowed to return. It’s ethnic cleansing.

bernieecclestoned ,

Pretty sure the 50% of the Gaza population who are children would be better off not being bombed to fuck. That’s ethnic cleansing. Moving down the road a bit while Hamas gets wiped out seems a wise move.

Evilcoleslaw ,

True that’s also ethnic cleansing. Hm. Maybe some country shouldn’t be engaged in ethnic cleansing. Maybe that’s the actual problem.

bernieecclestoned ,

Yes, Hamas’ entire existence is built on their charter to ethnically cleanse the Israelis…

Evilcoleslaw ,

Meanwhile, Israel doesn’t need to put it into a charter. They just do it, and have been for decades.

MrSpArkle , (edited )

We’ve just witnessed what happens when Hamas puts all of their might into their charter of ethnic cleansing. If Israel had such a charter, what would it look like if Israel put all their might into ethnically cleansing Gaza?

DarkGamer ,
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Innocent people always suffer in war, maybe provoking an unwinnable one has consequences for others in your nation. Maybe some country shouldn't invade its neighbor, slaughter and kidnap its civilians to avoid such retribution.

Palestine at this point is a sickly rage-drunk inconsolable angry person at the bar, yelling about how their home got repossessed to build the establishment. In a rage they punch the bouncer in the face, and when the predictable beat-down occurs they plead, "Look what they're doing to me! I'm being unfairly repressed! I have kids who will suffer because of this! This is systemic oppression! They made me do it!"

Evilcoleslaw ,

Except in this case the bouncer shows up the next day in the drunk’s neighborhood and starts shooting up all the homes and kills a bunch of his neighbors and the newspapers call him a hero.

VentraSqwal ,

Innocent people always suffer in war, maybe provoking an unwinnable one has consequences for others in your nation. Maybe some country shouldn’t invade its neighbor, slaughter and kidnap its civilians to avoid such retribution.

I honestly couldn’t tell if you were talking about Israel or Palestine here lol.

jarfil ,

What really grinds my gears, are people who purposefully immigrated to both Gaza, and as Israeli settlers, just to have as many kids as possible to increase the population, then use their own kids as throwaway tokens in a fully expected conflict.

Having double nationality and now asking “their countries” to avacuate them, is just extra insulting.

MrSpArkle ,

Palestinian militants have a history of establishing enclaves and starting civil wars within the countries that host them. Arab countries have an apprehension about allowing too many Palestinians in because of this history.

JohnDClay ,

Would it work for a larger country to fly in refugees, since hopefully they’d be much more resistant to civil wars? It’d be hard to sell your citizens on spending that much on non-citizens though.

VentraSqwal ,

You’d basically be flying a while other small country into your country. I doubt any state wants that.

JohnDClay ,

They don’t all need to go one place, but I agree it’s unlikely to happen.

This is potentially larger than the rwandan genocide if you count all 2M inhabitants. We can’t just let all these people die.

VentraSqwal ,

Right? We could split them up more, basically make the entire population a refugee diaspora split among various Arab countries, but then that means the Jewish people just did to another people what they claim was bad for them. Plus, isn’t forcing migration is basically genocide? We can’t condemn Stalin for doing the same thing a country we support is doing.

JohnDClay ,

Yeah, that’d be pretty terrible. But letting them be killed would be a lot worse. If there aren’t enough supplies able to get in, and countries don’t want to force Israel, it might be the lesser of two evils.

MrSpArkle ,

That is a better solution for those who want to flee or have the means or freedom to flee, or are ok with abandoning their communities and historical ties. However this would only help those refugees. For those who remain the situation will remain untenable until militants stop rising to power within Palestinian territories, and Israel negotiates a two state solution that involves giving up some land.

JohnDClay ,

I have a feeling we’ll have more refugees than capacity to help them. But I agree.

charliespider ,

Palestinian Iranian backed militants have a history of establishing enclaves and starting civil wars within the countries that host them. because of this history.

FTFY

MrSpArkle ,

Yes, Iranian regimes have provided material aid to Palestinian militants towards their goals. That aid is still being provided, hence continuing apprehension.

Jaysyn ,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

That's really not the flex you think it is.

assassin_aragorn ,

This was a sad thing to learn about. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait. All of them saw civil war or strife after taking in Palestinians :/.

probablyaCat ,

It's almost like a certain group doesn't want peace.

ManosTheHandsOfFate ,
@ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world avatar

I assume the idea is to get the starving Palestinians turn on Hamas.

lolcatnip ,

That strategy has been tried a million times and it has never worked. Remember when Cubans ousted Castro? Me neither.

protist ,

How would they turn on Hamas? What would that even look like? I’ve heard tons of interviews with Palestinians, and almost all were just as shocked at what happened as Israelis. Many, many already do not support Hamas, but what is there to even do about that when you’re just trying to find enough food and water to keep your family alive?

idiomaddict ,

Okay, so hamas has Israeli hostages. In retaliation, Israel takes 2.3 million Palestinian hostages?

probablyaCat ,

It would seem to be the case. And I'm not sure what Hamas thought would happen.

Zombiepirate ,
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

Hamas wins when Israel makes more desperate people that just want revenge.

kick_out_the_jams ,

Terrorists generally thrive on instability.
Usually they prefer to trade hostages for their own though.

Zombiepirate ,
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

Sure, but what better way to recruit new fighters?

This is the same play that al-Queda made on 9/11: they made the US severely overplay their hand with one egregious coordinated attack.

The US is still paying for that overzealous reaction 20 years later; there is a case to me made that ISIL wouldn’t have been the power that it became without the GWOT.

Hamas is trying to exploit the fact that they’ve made Palestinians a worldwide target with limited options: more desperate people without a future means Hamas is the only entity to turn to.

avater ,
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you can say the same about Russia. Propaganda in both of this countries is very strong…

jarfil ,

In what sense? Who’s making whose people more desperate and looking for revenge?

avater ,
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the russians are blaming the west for all the bad that is happening currently. Their propaganda is declaring us as the boogeyman and a whole new generation of russians is raising up with the image of the west as an enemy.

But should this stop us in our aid and support for ukraine? People will keep dying in this war and people will keep dying as long as a terror group as the Hamas is leading in Gazah.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

JERUSALEM/GAZA/ASHKELON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday there would be no humanitarian break to its siege of the Gaza Strip until all its hostages were freed, after the Red Cross pleaded for fuel to be allowed in to prevent overwhelmed hospitals from “turning into morgues”.

Israel has vowed to annihilate the Hamas movement that rules the Gaza Strip in retribution for the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, when hundreds of gunmen poured across the barrier fence and rampaged through Israeli towns on Saturday.

Israel has responded so far by putting the enclave, home to 2.3 million people, under total siege and launching by far the most powerful bombing campaign in the 75-year history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, destroying whole neighbourhoods.

“The human misery caused by this escalation is abhorrent, and I implore the sides to reduce the suffering of civilians,” Fabrizio Carboni, regional director of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in a statement on Thursday.

No electrical switch will be lifted, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli hostages are returned home.

He will also visit Jordan, and officials in the Palestinian Authority - rivals to the Hamas Islamists that control Gaza - said Blinken would meet their president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Friday.

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