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Everyone is always a squatter on someone else’s land, for millennia now. The question is how do you deal with it. Israel “dealing” with its “Palestinian proble
by seer 2mo ago
Everyone is always a squatter on someone else’s land, for millennia now.
The question is how do you deal with it. Israel “dealing” with its “Palestinian problem” by taking a book out of nazis and Ottoman Empire is both ironic and incredibly sad.
Also kinda inevitable if you think about it just from a game theory point of view. Every act of violence, every war, won or lost, increases support for a radical party. Every act of terror Hamas / Hezbollah promote strengthens Netanyahu’s position, every act of terror Israeli government does strengthens Hamas / Hezbollah.
It’s just game theory - either respective positions are not to “solve the actual problem” it’s to perpetuate their own existence. If the terror stops, all three lose power, so which leader would ever do it?
There has to be either an outside enemy to drive people together, or an outside force of peace doing the same (EUs role in the Northern Ireland’s case). And this becomes even harder if you have external powers that are _driving_ the division (Iran for example in be middle eastern case).
It’s just humans being greedy and thinking of local political problems and not the bigger picture, a “premature optimisation” if your will…
- judah 2mo agoIt's incredibly cynical to demonize Jews for living in our historic homeland and turning desert sand into thriving cities[0]. It's what we prayed for daily for centuries after being thrown out of Europe. Now it's here, now we're living it, and haters call us by our persecutors' name for doing it. [0]: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/tel-aviv-sand-plot-1909/ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/tel-aviv-sand-plot-1909/
- seer 2mo agoTel-aviv is honestly incredibly impressive, I’ve been there and the place is amazing - that it was just a sand dune and without the Arab oil wealth still managed to make this land into an amazing place to live… Don’t think anyone is faulting people for that - it’s the other side of the coin that the whole world is kinda not really liking. And it’s not like there aren’t examples of successful integrations - even with internal tensions some places do manage to just make people live together, it’s hard yes but not impossible… just have to have the will and smarts for it, wonder what the current Israeli government is lacking…
- AuthAuth 2mo agoHow should they have dealt with it? The responses have been pretty reasonable. Even 2023 was a reasonable response. Only as the war dragged on did it go to far in my opinion.