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> One phone call to whom? Hamas? To Israel. The modern state of Israel simply cannot exist without the largesse and political cover the US provides. > There i
by jmyeet 2y ago
> One phone call to whom? Hamas?
To Israel. The modern state of Israel simply cannot exist without the largesse and political cover the US provides.
> There is no easy solution
Yes and no. End the genocide. End the apartheid. Nuremberg-like trials to deal with war criminals on both sides. Reconstruction of a single state. 750,000 settlers has made a two-state solution impossible.
We've been here before: post-US civil war and post-apartheid South Africa.
There is the idea that the currently oppressed population will rise up in vilence against their former oppressors. History doesn't back up this view. Our modern examples such as Reconstruction showed the opposite: the rise of the KKK and the rise of violence against former slaves by their former oppressors.
Afghanistan has been described as the graveyard of empires. This region may be vying for that title.
- dbdoskey 2y agoIsrael existed for decades without US support. No Jews will agree to live under a Muslim majority one state solution, it will inevitably decay into something similar to Lebanon, Syria, or Egypt.
- murderfs 2y ago> No Jews will agree to live under a Muslim majority one state solution Couldn't you say the same about whites in apartheid South Africa?
- tptacek 2y agoThe situations aren't comparable. Most Israeli citizens are of MENA origin; they are not, as activist wisdom would have it, ambitious Europeans.
- jbenjoseph 2y agoIt's really not the same thing. Jews have a very long history of being oppressed by Muslims and Christians.
- nolongerthere 2y agoI don’t know that you want to bring South Africa as an example of success. Even the majority is fed up with their government.