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I agree. It is dehumanizing. Neither side views the others as humans. Neither side will engage in good faith negotiation. Both leaderships want it this way, yep

I agree. It is dehumanizing. Neither side views the others as humans. Neither side will engage in good faith negotiation. Both leaderships want it this way, yep I'll repeat that: BOTH LEADERSHIPS WANT IT THIS WAY. At a minimum, both keep power this way. #1 priority of crazy authoritarians: maintain power. There is no humanitarianism. Humanitarianism is a secular idea. These are two religious extremist regimes. There are no secular priorities by either government. Only religious extremist views. Neither side will negotiate or coexist in a secular peace. Yes, Hamas will happily throw away massive numbers of its people if it thinks its winning. That's the entire strategy. Yes, they get paid to do that by various states like Iran and the UAE. That's the only money that comes into the palestinian territories: humanitarian aid (which is funneled/controlled by the PA or Hamas) and military aid, which gets funneled to Hamas (I admittedly know less about how the PA works, I think they are the same just not as bad) and they use to maintain authoritarian control over Gaza. The military aid enables Hamas to keep power, and it only comes if they keep poking Israel. Is it cruel of me to point out that expanding your population by 10x when they are virtually entirely dependent on external aid is absolutely crazy? And yes, sorry, the only reason I can think of other than incredible stupidity is for cannon fodder. Why wouldn't a two state solution work? Well it would be a three state solution if we're serious, no way the PA in West Bank shares power with Hamas in Gaza. No effing way. And yes, they would still launch rockets at Israel. Because, again, that's what Hamas leadership gets paid to do, and having a state won't change that. If you think otherwise, I'm sorry, I think you are naive. And yes, Israel/Netanyahu will look for ANY provocation to loose the barrage. Here, I'll give you a conspiracy theory: they'll false flag if they have to. Pay some group to start the war. I think there's a conspiracy theory they rigged this provocation. I'll give you that, sure! What would having a state matter? Look, the Palestinians are in a really really bad situation in terms of power dynamics. Only in modern (secular) international politics do the Palestinians even get to voice an opinion. Go ahead and argue about books or historical rights or atrocities. It won't change anything, Israel has a military that can wipe you out, and even if it seems like this is unrestrained: it isn't. Egypt will never let Palestinians into Sinai. Jordan will never again take them, Kuwait kicked theirs out, no Arab state will take them. They need to figure out a way to survive in Gaza. They are grossly outgunned, and only modern (secular) international relations prevents Israel from doing what the Mongols did to Baghdad. The oil is going to get less important with alt energy and EVs. Global warming is coming. THE MONEY WILL DRY UP. International attention will return to the apathy in line with the Tigray war and Azerbaijan-Armenia and Turkey-Kurds, and whatever else is going on in the world. When that happens, aid stops, food stops, gun shipments stop. Either Israel annihilates the Palestinians then, or they starve. Pick one! Hamas needs to step down and surrender and accept any peace they can get. Yes Israel builds settlements and encroaches. Beg Egypt to once again take over administration of Gaza (they won't ...) Beg someone to do it, get Hamas out of power. Only way a two state solution works is if someone Israel trusts just a bit takes over Gaza for a decade on a path to independence. If Hamas cared about its people, its children, its wives, it would step down. Right? Because they are humanitarians? Find some Arab country that will accept their surrender and provide sanctuary? Because the united Sunni brothers would do that for humanitarianism? You and I both know that will never happen. The people in control will risk total destruction over the surrender of any power, money, or control.

ImPostingOnHN 1y ago
> I agree. It is dehumanizing. Neither side views the others as humans. To clarify, YOU are the one doing the dehumanizing in your post, as myself and that other poster observed -- Not to mention the genocidal rhetoric. Just 1 small snippet of it from your post: > Is it cruel of me to point out that expanding your population by 10x when they are virtually entirely dependent on external aid is absolutely crazy? And yes, sorry, the only reason I can think of other than incredible stupidity is for cannon fodder. Imagine criticizing a people currently being genocided, for reproducing. Why don't they just let their entire ethnic group be exterminated, amiright? Disgusting. You know who else thought that downtrodden groups shouldn't reproduce? Pretty much every xenophobic pariah and war criminal in history, and many (including israel) are using violence to achieve that. 'Is it cruel to sympathize with, and encourage, the perpetration of a genocide? ' Is that a serious question?
- AtlasBarfed 1y ago
  Why are you quoting something I didn't say? 'Is it cruel to sympathize with, and encourage, the perpetration of a genocide?' So are you interested in a solution, or are you just pillorying people for sympathy? The Palestinians want sympathy. The Israelis want sympathy. The Palestinians want money (and get) money. The Israelis want (and get) money. The Israelis pound a religious book and whine about this being their ancestral home. The Palestinians pound a religious book and whine about this being their ancestral home. The Israelis show through their actions that they would happily kill all Palestinians. The Palestinians leaders regularly declare they would happily kill all Jews. Both sides are evil terrorists/genociders/radicals/militants. I'm so tired of naive/mendacious moralism by the proponents of both sides. At this point, a solution that doesn't involve "final solutions" won't involve social media propaganda logic, or "I want to save all cute kittens" levels of understanding the political, sociological, and historical difficulties. Do you want me to quantify the sympathy? Well fine. Here you go. The Holocaust killed 5-6 million Jews. The current ... intifada/assault/slaughter ... is 66,000. Displacements, forced migrations, and the like probably killed hundreds of thousands more Palestinians. So let's go for the entire 75 years and say ... 500,000. Which is 1/10th the genocide placed on Jews, leaving out the hundreds of years historical pogroms of Europe. So should I feel 90% sympathy for Israel and 10% for Palestine? That's what the scoreboard says roughly over the last 100 years. Is that what you want? Obviously that is ridiculous logic, and most importantly, doesn't help one iota for a short or long term resolution. The Palestinians got an unprecedented historical gift: the amount of aid they have received after the 1950s British Empire like territorial and ethnic chaos is geopolitically engineered in the creation of Israel, I can't think of anything similar. It supported a population of like 500,000 people to the point they became 5,000,000 people. It's because of the unprecedented oil wealth, obviously, and the kindness of Arab oil states, I believe UAE in particular. Palestinians don't seem to realize that their greatest enemy isn't Israel: this aid largess that supports them is going to dry up. Oil is going to be less valuable as transportation electrification and alternative energy develop. The great eye of sauron that watches this little postage stamp of the world will turn to deal with other things, like nascent superpower conflicts between EU-Russia and China-Taiwan. And I haven't even gotten to global warming disruptions that probably will start to rear up in the coming decades. The money will dry up. The attention will disappear. The sympathy will fade. Israel will gain unrestrained power over the Palestinians. The Gazans need to eject Hamas leadership, and surrender them to the Israelis. Then accept whatever conditions to be allowed to create and economy. That swinehead Jared Kushner is indirectly correct: their only hope for some economy is as a tourist economy for their swathe of the Mediterranean Sea. I don't see any other way they can construct some economy of and degree of self-sufficiency. If Gaza and the West Bank don't find some means of doing something like this, they die of mass starvation when the aid necessary to support 5,000,000 people disappears. Israel doesn't have to do anything but .... wait. They'll probably lose a large amount of US military aid at some point but they have an economy and industries to support the loss of that aid, and as the most geopolitically effective "ally" the US has in the region, it won't disappear entirely. All the bullshit sympathy mongering by pro-Palestinians is just dooming them further. It keeps the conflict going and keeps resolution intractable, something that, as I have stated, the respective controlling political powers want, but the people ... probably not. So if you have SERIOUS insights or solutions, please... go ahead.

ImPostingOnHN 1y ago

> I agree. It is dehumanizing. Neither side views the others as humans. To clarify, YOU are the one doing the dehumanizing in your post, as myself and that other poster observed -- Not to mention the genocidal rhetoric. Just 1 small snippet of it from your post: > Is it cruel of me to point out that expanding your population by 10x when they are virtually entirely dependent on external aid is absolutely crazy? And yes, sorry, the only reason I can think of other than incredible stupidity is for cannon fodder. Imagine criticizing a people currently being genocided, for reproducing. Why don't they just let their entire ethnic group be exterminated, amiright? Disgusting. You know who else thought that downtrodden groups shouldn't reproduce? Pretty much every xenophobic pariah and war criminal in history, and many (including israel) are using violence to achieve that. 'Is it cruel to sympathize with, and encourage, the perpetration of a genocide? ' Is that a serious question?

AtlasBarfed 1y ago
Why are you quoting something I didn't say? 'Is it cruel to sympathize with, and encourage, the perpetration of a genocide?' So are you interested in a solution, or are you just pillorying people for sympathy? The Palestinians want sympathy. The Israelis want sympathy. The Palestinians want money (and get) money. The Israelis want (and get) money. The Israelis pound a religious book and whine about this being their ancestral home. The Palestinians pound a religious book and whine about this being their ancestral home. The Israelis show through their actions that they would happily kill all Palestinians. The Palestinians leaders regularly declare they would happily kill all Jews. Both sides are evil terrorists/genociders/radicals/militants. I'm so tired of naive/mendacious moralism by the proponents of both sides. At this point, a solution that doesn't involve "final solutions" won't involve social media propaganda logic, or "I want to save all cute kittens" levels of understanding the political, sociological, and historical difficulties. Do you want me to quantify the sympathy? Well fine. Here you go. The Holocaust killed 5-6 million Jews. The current ... intifada/assault/slaughter ... is 66,000. Displacements, forced migrations, and the like probably killed hundreds of thousands more Palestinians. So let's go for the entire 75 years and say ... 500,000. Which is 1/10th the genocide placed on Jews, leaving out the hundreds of years historical pogroms of Europe. So should I feel 90% sympathy for Israel and 10% for Palestine? That's what the scoreboard says roughly over the last 100 years. Is that what you want? Obviously that is ridiculous logic, and most importantly, doesn't help one iota for a short or long term resolution. The Palestinians got an unprecedented historical gift: the amount of aid they have received after the 1950s British Empire like territorial and ethnic chaos is geopolitically engineered in the creation of Israel, I can't think of anything similar. It supported a population of like 500,000 people to the point they became 5,000,000 people. It's because of the unprecedented oil wealth, obviously, and the kindness of Arab oil states, I believe UAE in particular. Palestinians don't seem to realize that their greatest enemy isn't Israel: this aid largess that supports them is going to dry up. Oil is going to be less valuable as transportation electrification and alternative energy develop. The great eye of sauron that watches this little postage stamp of the world will turn to deal with other things, like nascent superpower conflicts between EU-Russia and China-Taiwan. And I haven't even gotten to global warming disruptions that probably will start to rear up in the coming decades. The money will dry up. The attention will disappear. The sympathy will fade. Israel will gain unrestrained power over the Palestinians. The Gazans need to eject Hamas leadership, and surrender them to the Israelis. Then accept whatever conditions to be allowed to create and economy. That swinehead Jared Kushner is indirectly correct: their only hope for some economy is as a tourist economy for their swathe of the Mediterranean Sea. I don't see any other way they can construct some economy of and degree of self-sufficiency. If Gaza and the West Bank don't find some means of doing something like this, they die of mass starvation when the aid necessary to support 5,000,000 people disappears. Israel doesn't have to do anything but .... wait. They'll probably lose a large amount of US military aid at some point but they have an economy and industries to support the loss of that aid, and as the most geopolitically effective "ally" the US has in the region, it won't disappear entirely. All the bullshit sympathy mongering by pro-Palestinians is just dooming them further. It keeps the conflict going and keeps resolution intractable, something that, as I have stated, the respective controlling political powers want, but the people ... probably not. So if you have SERIOUS insights or solutions, please... go ahead.