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"Officials said that Israel and Egypt were prepared to let foreigners leave the Strip which is under heavy Israeli bombardment, but Hamas had refused."

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[–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He probably blocked you because you argue in bad faith and lie about your historical examples - like pretending Vietnam wasn't a war of two established, professional militaries just as Korea was.

“You name it, I’m sure Israel would be on board with that” How about just releasing the Prisoners for the hostages and going home?

This, for instance, is an insane proposition and you throw it out like it's the obvious good choice.

[–] Sparlock@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel has traded 1000 poisoners for a single soldier in the past why is it "an insane proposition" all of a sudden? https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/17/world/meast/israel-prisoner-swap-explainer/index.html

You sure can't be consistent.
You keep quacking dude don't blame us for noticing it.

[–] Guydht@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, some of those 1,000 prisoners were active in that recent oct.7 massacre, so I guess that Israel learned from its mistakes. As much as it pains them, they can't effort giving Hamas forces, as they'll regret it tenfold later.

[–] Sparlock@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Israel was truly worried about regretting it later they wouldn't be growing a whole new generation of people that have every reason to hate them. Their actions over the decades speak FAR louder than the words they use to seem like they are trying, as does the body count of innocents.

[–] Guydht@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For more than the last decade Israel spent 0 efforts on raising the Gaza population and completely left them to run their own educational/inner governmental funding. That proved to be the worst mistake they could ever do, as that educational program is pure hate fuel for religious extremists and the government funding (which btw is a lot of funding from foreigners) was used for rockets and anti-tank ammunition instead of safe houses for civilians. Heck, the only safe zones are the underground tunnels, which are only used for Hamas fighters.

All that means is that Israel should've either completely hammer down on stuff going in, and truly be like china murdering muslims, or completely run the region themselves, which is basically colonialism. Which option is good? None. Who can be blamed for that? The Palestinians leaders.

Don't get me wrong, Israel's leaders also chose a very bad option of leaving it alone and letting it grow into a monster, but let's face it - they had no good options on what to do with Gaza. So blaming everything that's happening purely on Israel, is just unfair. What could they have done to prevent this?

[–] Sparlock@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I could not declare genocide.

Do I really need to go find every quote from Bibi and Israeli Officials declaring their intent?

Not do decades of persecution PRIOR to Hamas even existing.

Not have Israel fund Hamas for years.

Not drop bombs on refugee camps.

Not cut off food, water, electricity.

Not shoot peaceful protesters.

Not kill journalists.

Not kill clearly marked medics.

Do I really need to go on?

"What could they have done to prevent this?"

Fuck
off.

[–] Guydht@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Not doing any of this stuff would've meant a Palestinian state in Gaza led by Hamas.

Such a state would've killed many more jews.

Is it really that hard to see such obvious facts? What action has Palestinian ever done to warrant faith from the Israeli side that they wouldn't get massacres if Palestinians had a state.

It's as simple as that. Make Israelis not feel threatened, make a state. Do make Israelis feel threatened, get oppression.

And no other country in the world would do differently when feeling threatened. Some would do actual genocide and have 2 million dead.