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No one offered an alternative, either.

C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
Alternative to accomplish what exactly? To get hostages back? Hostage exchange. To dismantling Hamas and armed resistance from Palestinians? Stop ethnically cleansing the West Bank and remove the boot from their necks so that people in Gaza see that there is a better way and that going down fighting is not the only choice. Plenty of alternatives to death and destruction when those are not the actual goal itself. Of course those alternatives do not go hand in hand with the idea of an ethnically-cleansed Greater Israel, so here we are.
- xyzelement 3y ago
  What boot was on the neck of Gaza prior to the October attacks. Hamas had full autonomy over the strip. No?
  - C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
    All that is just an internet search away, and provides an endless list. Let us ignore the major bombings of Gaza in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022. How about the following few: Jewish Voice for Peace giving a timeline of major violence against Palestinians for about a year before 2023-10-07: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-genocide/ https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-... 2023-09-18: "2023 marks deadliest year on record for children in the occupied West Bank" https://www.savethechildren.net/news/2023-marks-deadliest-year-record-children-occupied-west-bank https://www.savethechildren.net/news/2023-marks-deadliest-ye... HRW on the above: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-... 2023-01-13: "Last year Israeli forces killed at least 146 Palestinians, including 34 children, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported" https://apnews.com/article/politics-israel-government-palestinian-territories-west-bank-68f7590fe86ca7dc7b37e5775e41d711 https://apnews.com/article/politics-israel-government-palest...
    - flyinglizard 3y ago
      You mix Gaza and West Bank and conveniently ignore the fact that each of those bombings in Gaza came after indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.

Alternative to accomplish what exactly? To get hostages back? Hostage exchange. To dismantling Hamas and armed resistance from Palestinians? Stop ethnically cleansing the West Bank and remove the boot from their necks so that people in Gaza see that there is a better way and that going down fighting is not the only choice. Plenty of alternatives to death and destruction when those are not the actual goal itself. Of course those alternatives do not go hand in hand with the idea of an ethnically-cleansed Greater Israel, so here we are.

xyzelement 3y ago
What boot was on the neck of Gaza prior to the October attacks. Hamas had full autonomy over the strip. No?
- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
  All that is just an internet search away, and provides an endless list. Let us ignore the major bombings of Gaza in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022. How about the following few: Jewish Voice for Peace giving a timeline of major violence against Palestinians for about a year before 2023-10-07: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-genocide/ https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-... 2023-09-18: "2023 marks deadliest year on record for children in the occupied West Bank" https://www.savethechildren.net/news/2023-marks-deadliest-year-record-children-occupied-west-bank https://www.savethechildren.net/news/2023-marks-deadliest-ye... HRW on the above: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-... 2023-01-13: "Last year Israeli forces killed at least 146 Palestinians, including 34 children, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported" https://apnews.com/article/politics-israel-government-palestinian-territories-west-bank-68f7590fe86ca7dc7b37e5775e41d711 https://apnews.com/article/politics-israel-government-palest...
  - flyinglizard 3y ago
    You mix Gaza and West Bank and conveniently ignore the fact that each of those bombings in Gaza came after indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.