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I have family in Israel, people who protested against the judicial overhaul every week for weeks. Some of them are also in the military, saying after the Hamas
by submeta 3y ago
I have family in Israel, people who protested against the judicial overhaul every week for weeks. Some of them are also in the military, saying after the Hamas attacks "now is the time to kill arabs". - The way Israel is reacting to the hamas atrocities [1] will not make Israel a safer place. We haven't eradicated Taliban in 20 years, but sat with them at the table after 20 years and negotiated. - Hamas was built in 1988 after the first intifada. Hezbollah after Israeli invasion in Lebanon 1982. The more military force Israel uses, the more orphans it creates who will run into the arms of another group.
There is only one way to solve this, and that's by giving Palestinians a life that's worth living. Not by denying them basic rights. In the West Bank there are 40 checkpoins, nightly raids, 500-700 children who are detained every year. Military rule for Pals, civilian rule for settlers. So if a palestinian child throws a stone, he can get 10-20 years in prison, a settler? Nothing usually. We have 700,000 settlements built in West Bank in the past years.
All of this injustice will create the next group, even if the last hamas person is killed.
[1] In the current Gaza war, Israel is withholding water, food, medicines, and electricity for 2.1 mil. civilians, 1.1 mil children is against Geneva Conventions. It punishes civilians. And destroying the complete infrastructure of Gaza (hospitals, schools, universities, etc) will make Gaza uninhabitable, and that plus the genocidal language of Netanyahu and his cabinet (Netanyahu comparing palestinians to "Amalek", which the old testament says to destroy--their women, children, the babies; Gallant comparing them to human animals; Herzog saying there are no innocent people in Gaza, blaming the civilians as well)
- ycdxvjp 3y agoIt keeps the MIL complex revenues up. Things only make sense after you add how the cash flows. It corrupts everthing in multiple ways at mutiple levels. Mil complex pays no price for bad outcomes. They benefit from them.
- rf15 3y agoThe sad truth is that all of this was very predictable. It is also very convenient for Netanyahu, whose family[0] and government coalition has some interesting views about the area as a whole[1], including who Jordan belongs to. One could argue a lasting peace is utterly impossible due to ideological reasons/religious extremism on both sides. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzion_Netanyahu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzion_Netanyahu [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Zionism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Zionism
- AniseAbyss 3y ago[dead]