Since many of you seem to think of themselves as having viable solutions for the Israel/Palestine conflict- go ahead: Tell us how Israel should act after this Terrorist Attack.
Please refrain from bad faith arguments and stuff like „Israel should dissolve itself“ (because you and I know, that’s not going to happen)
Since many of you seem to think of themselves as having viable solutions for the Israel/Palestine conflict- go ahead: Tell us how Israel should act after this Terrorist Attack.
You just hinted at the start of a possible solution. Israelis need to stop voting for warmongering criminals like Netanyahu who have zero desire to see peace. The people in Gaza? They don't get to vote.
I'm actually quite positive right now in that regard, like I haven't been since the fucker killed Rabin: The right-wing vision of security for Israel just blew up in the nation's face, big time. The IDF was busy backing up settlers harassing Palestinians in the West Bank and thus not on the Gazan border, the whole "antagonise until they give up" approach binds resources needed to actually provide security. Also, Palestinians don't show any signs of giving up.
If the left goes in with a "security, checkpoints, de-settlement and de-escalation" policy (of course in addition to lowering pudding prices) they might just take the Knesset wholesale.
Because one thing is rather curious about Israel: While the people pretty much bought the ring-wing security vision, that didn't mean an overall shift to the right. And the seeds for the "we bred that monster" type insights are definitely already there in the Israeli press, even if formulated cautiously. Ultimately the whole current military situation has to be over with before actual politics happen.
Since Netanyahu and Hamas are the principal belligerents, I say send in a few SEALs to arrest them, and make them do "Hell in a Cell" in the middle of the desert, till they all die of exposure.
I'm aware this won't happen, but that seems to be the immediate solution here, since as you so rightly pointed out, the leadership on both sides just wants the conflict to continue ad infinitum
Yeah Hamas and Israel are both insane, don't see a solution that doesn't involve giving Palestine land back and people electing moderate governments, but none of the foreign interests want that and neither do influential domestic factions. The most predictable blowback ever.
Here's a fun whataboutist comparison: Two countries are currently in the efforts of stealing the territory of their neighbors, one though apartheid regime and slow claims to land, the other through a "military exercise." Many in the west cheer on the deaths of Russian civilians because they are allegedly complicit in the war, they're called "orks." In Israel's case their civilians are viewed as innocent victims, what is the difference? I think there are some valid differences but it does highlight some hypocrisy. I don't think any civilian deaths are justified in these conflicts, whether committed by either side.
I don't really know anything about the situation beyond the 10 minute explainer I watched on youtube.
It's practically a holy war that's raged for millennia though - I don't think there are "solutions", I think the goal is just to dial back the ferocity of the feud a few notches.
That 10 minute explainer did you a disservice I think. That holy war concept is a really vague way of describing why there has been conflict in the region for that breadth of time. But it doesnt really address the Israel-Palestinian conflict so much as it provides a smokescreen for the last 100 years of political maneuvers by the various Allied powers of WW1 and WW2 with the British and French first, then America since.
Worse than deliberately cutting off an entire population's water supply? As to which army, as always a multinational taskforce. Yes the UN is not perfect but just letting them commit atrocities over and over isn't exactly working out.
Except every time the UN attempts to even condemn Israel's illegal settlements and war crimes, the US vetoes it. Because we have that power for some reason.