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That's an interpretation of events that I've heard from a lot of Israeli folks that are in some way horrified what's happening in Gaza. I think it's very naive

That's an interpretation of events that I've heard from a lot of Israeli folks that are in some way horrified what's happening in Gaza. I think it's very naive and I don't even think most folks saying this believe in it themselves. What actions from the IDF, what imbalance of power, what civilian casualty rates will you need to see to believe that it's no longer a war? Are you really waiting for the actual mass starvation to take place before accept there's intent? Does it have to be gas chambers? Does the death toll have to pass 1 million? 6 million? Do you really think that the Israeli government wants to brings the hostages back? What do you think would happen after they did bring them back? Will you rescind your support then? Jews in the Ghetto didn't get the chance to shoot rockets at Berlin but had they been able to fight back, I'd have given them the same understanding that I currently extends to Palestinians that grew up in the concentration camp that is Gaza. Hamas is the direct results of Israeli policies of the past decades. Even if the IDF manages to somehow invent some purity test for Gazans that it can use to confirm there are no longer any Hamas members left and it finally declares it's operations concluded, you'll have people shooting rockets at Israel if they keep their policies with the Gaza strip and the West Bank. But long term solutions come later, right now, Israelis need to wake up and say no to what is unfolding in the name of their security.

yoavm 1y ago
I will stop thinking that this conflict is a war when there will be a side in it that doesn't have the motivation to take over all the land, and acts towards it by attempting to kill the other. As long as there are two parties that are constantly trying to kill each other, I call that a war. As I wrote elsewhere - that doesn't mean I disagree with the idea that genocidal actions are being taken during this war. Your comment about Jews in Ghetto is wrong at every possible level. Jews were killed in the Holocaust _without_ a conflict, _without_ attempting to kill Germans, _without_ fighting with anyone over the land and _without_ having any aspirations to control the other. That is an example of a situation where there is no war, and no, it has nothing to do with the situation between Israelis and Palestinians.
- hedora 1y ago
  There were more than 100 armed jewish uprisings in Germany during WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_resistance_in_German-occupied_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_resistance_in_German-oc... Going through your criteria in order: Of course they defended themselves, including attempts to kill Nazis. They also attempted to keep their homes, and certainly would have rather Germany have different leadership Does that somehow mean the concentration camps were a "war"?
  - earnestinger 1y ago
    I think the parent meant there were no shooting before the genocide started. Jewish resistances were reactive to nazi actions. I.e. there was not even a possibility that nazis were defending. While somebody from Palestine side did fire the opening salvo on oct7.
    - fzil 1y ago
      > While somebody from Palestine side did fire the opening salvo on oct7. Now, that's a re-writing of history if I've ever seen one. > Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the 2023 Gaza war. Of the Palestinian deaths 5,360 were in Gaza, 1,007 in the West Bank, 37 in Israel. Most were civilians on both sides. Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict_in_2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%... See the chart on the top right with the orange bars
      - earnestinger 1y ago
        I do understand that it was not the first first salvo. And that blockading policy and financing of anything but fatah and bunch of other stuff influenced today situation. But you must admit that oct 7 was unusual escalation. Which now are used as the reason for current idf actions.
- alkyon 1y ago
  Stop telling lies about Gaza conflict being "war". Israeli military has absolute superiority over Palestinians. What it is is a genocidal campaign meant to wipe them off the face of the Earth. Also, stop using the Holocaust as a propaganda tool. My grandfather happened to be a Buchenwald concentration camp survival. It didn't give him or anybody else any right to violate Geneva convention.

yoavm 1y ago

I will stop thinking that this conflict is a war when there will be a side in it that doesn't have the motivation to take over all the land, and acts towards it by attempting to kill the other. As long as there are two parties that are constantly trying to kill each other, I call that a war. As I wrote elsewhere - that doesn't mean I disagree with the idea that genocidal actions are being taken during this war. Your comment about Jews in Ghetto is wrong at every possible level. Jews were killed in the Holocaust _without_ a conflict, _without_ attempting to kill Germans, _without_ fighting with anyone over the land and _without_ having any aspirations to control the other. That is an example of a situation where there is no war, and no, it has nothing to do with the situation between Israelis and Palestinians.

hedora 1y ago
There were more than 100 armed jewish uprisings in Germany during WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_resistance_in_German-occupied_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_resistance_in_German-oc... Going through your criteria in order: Of course they defended themselves, including attempts to kill Nazis. They also attempted to keep their homes, and certainly would have rather Germany have different leadership Does that somehow mean the concentration camps were a "war"?
- earnestinger 1y ago
  I think the parent meant there were no shooting before the genocide started. Jewish resistances were reactive to nazi actions. I.e. there was not even a possibility that nazis were defending. While somebody from Palestine side did fire the opening salvo on oct7.
  - fzil 1y ago
    > While somebody from Palestine side did fire the opening salvo on oct7. Now, that's a re-writing of history if I've ever seen one. > Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the 2023 Gaza war. Of the Palestinian deaths 5,360 were in Gaza, 1,007 in the West Bank, 37 in Israel. Most were civilians on both sides. Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict_in_2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%... See the chart on the top right with the orange bars
    - earnestinger 1y ago
      I do understand that it was not the first first salvo. And that blockading policy and financing of anything but fatah and bunch of other stuff influenced today situation. But you must admit that oct 7 was unusual escalation. Which now are used as the reason for current idf actions.
alkyon 1y ago
Stop telling lies about Gaza conflict being "war". Israeli military has absolute superiority over Palestinians. What it is is a genocidal campaign meant to wipe them off the face of the Earth. Also, stop using the Holocaust as a propaganda tool. My grandfather happened to be a Buchenwald concentration camp survival. It didn't give him or anybody else any right to violate Geneva convention.