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    I mean, it’s really both. Hamas is batshit crazy, they’re just far less militarily powerful.

    There are no good guys in the Israel Palestine fight.

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      If one stops trying to subjugate the other, the other should hopefully slowly start to be calm down about the subjugation.

      Years and years of people stealing land, burning houses, shooting unarmed protesters and prosecuting people unfairly only leads to more hatred, more conflict, and more war.

      If there was any chance of a free and fair election in Palestine that could elect something else it would be good, but only would end up different if it came without Israel’s interference and them actually staying out of Palestine. Governments like Israel and the U.S. or U.K. trying to put anyone on the ground there is more likely to cause conflicts. Where as if the UN countries all agreed to cut all trade with Israel if they didn’t stop trying to instigate shit… Israel would likely listen, or dissolve over time if they didn’t. The only people who should be on the ground there is investigate journalists and AID from around the world to help those people rebuild and leave whatever can be left behind them behind them

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      Hamas has power because they are resisting an apartheid state. I’m sorry but I absolutely hate this take. You can criticize a state when it gains sovereignty and is enacting unjust laws against its citizens. But when the only resistance to an apartheid state is a right wing faction that right wing faction is still correct for resistance.

      Do you think the solution to the unjust Jim Crow laws of the segregation in the US South would be for Canada to start carpet bombing Atlanta? A people can not make progress within their state structures while under the thumb of oppression and apartheid.

      The time to criticize the Palestinian state is after there is a sovereign Palestinian state. Hamas on paper might have right wing ideas. But Hamas as a force fighting an apartheid state against the genocide of its people is absolutely fully justified. And that’s who makes up “Hamas”.

      The Palestinian people don’t have the luxury of deciding which ideology is fighting to resist their extermination. And not until they have self determination as a people can they begin to actually progress in their civil rights.

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      Secular Palestinian Political Organisations existed, Bibi supported Hamas specifically to weaken the secular flanks, because it’s way easier to justify a genocide against Hamas

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          Fatah made a deal with Israel and it stuck to it. Fatah didn’t “collaborate”, it tried to achieve peace and a Palestinian state. It is the only player in the conflict that plays within the parameters set out by the UN.

          Fatah is a truly tragic organization in this whole drama. Before you accuse Fatah of anything, you must first condemn Israel and the international community for betraying the shit out of them.

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            Israel didn’t respect the Oslo accords so PA shouldn’t keep respecting it either.

            I condemn Israel first, the Arab traitors and western countries Israel supporters seconds and the occupation collaborators the PA last.

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              Easy to pontificate to the Palestinians what they should or shouldn’t do.

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                Support for Palestinian factions: support for Hamas declines by 4-points while support for Fatah remains unchanged. The decline in support for Hamas came from the West Bank. Support for Fatah is higher in the Gaza Strip than in the West Bank and support for Hamas is also higher in the Gaza Strip than in the West Bank. In both areas, support for Hamas is higher than the support for Fatah.

                Support for Palestinian factions: support for Hamas declines by 4-points while support for Fatah remains unchanged. The decline in support for Hamas came from the West Bank. Support for Fatah is higher in the Gaza Strip than in the West Bank and support for Hamas is also higher in the Gaza Strip than in the West Bank. In both areas, support for Hamas is higher than the support for Fatah.

                Support for Palestinian leaders: If presidential elections were held between three candidates, Marwan Barghouti of Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, and Khalid Mishal of Hamas, Barghouti would receive 50% of the vote, followed by Khalid Mishal and Abbas.

                The release of Marwan Barghouti is supported by Hamas but not by the Palestinian Authority

                https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-palestinian-authority-oppose-marwan-barghouti-release-negotiations#%3A~%3Atext=The+source+added+that+senior%2Cof+PA+President+Mahmoud+Abbas.

                Demand for the resignation of president Abbas: About 1 in 5 Palestinians are satisfied with the performance of **President Abbas **and 81% want him to resign.

                When asked whether it supports or opposes the disarmament of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in order to stop the war on the Gaza Strip, an overwhelming majority (85% in the West Bank and 64% in the Gaza Strip) said it is opposed to that; only 18% support it.

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                  Marwan Barghouti is a member of Fatah.

                  The JCPA that you cite is a conservative Israeli think tank…

                  Edit: You changed the citation.

                  Sure Abbas doesn’t want him out, but Fatah is not Abbas and Abbas is not Fatah. Fatah is a mass organization.

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              And where exactly do you place Hamas with their bombing campaign that led to Netanyahu, who wanted to end Olso, being elected to replace Peres, who wanted to enact it?

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                Israel want the whole land since it’s creation so stop blaming everything on Hamas . Hamas reply to occupation brutality that’s all and occupier force always committed more crimes against any act of resistance . The plo respected the term, Israel didn’t because they do not want peace. If you accept Israel excuses you are not better than any Zionist

                After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine - Ben Gurion

                Partition might be only a temporary arrangement for the next twenty to twenty-five years - Chaim Weizmann

                There will be no Palestinian state—this land is ours - Netenyahu on September 11, 2025

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                  You seem to struggle with the concept that Israel (and Palestine) consists of more than one person or faction and that there are factions that want peace and factions that want war. Hamas made sure the Israeli faction that wanted peace lost power in '96

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            The Qatari money was used for infrastructure projects. Israel as the occupying force it the one who allow money to go even to the west bank of the PA yet weirdly the rhetoric is only used to against Hamas . Hamas rely of smuggling for it’s military wing and arms.

            How can you convince anybody that Hamas works for Israel against the “good” Palestinian authority who is collaborating for Israeli security while not protecting a single Palestinian from the settlers?

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        Hamas doesn’t accept the two state solution. They are open to maybe discussing potentially reaching a consensus about the 1967 borders.

        If you want to underscore Israeli unreasonableness, you’ve got to point to the PA/Fatah. The PA/Fatah has accepted the two state solution and has stopped violent resistance against Israel. They are in every way an interlocutor for peace. And in return they are being constantly undermined and ratfucked by Israel. Their territory is being annexed, its authority ridiculed, ita legitimacy destroyed.

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          So PA has respected the term of the Oslo accords and Israel didn’t and start building more settlements, arming and protecting the settlers yet PA still accept to work for Israel security while west banker get terrorized and attacked by them . Thank you for proving my point that PA are collaborators and Israel do not want peace regardless if Hamas is destroyed or not

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            Israel actually dismantled settlements after Oslo. Hamas opposed the Accords and carried out several deadly bomb attacks against Israeli civilians in the runup to the next election. This put Netanyahu in power who ran on an agenda of opposing Oslo as well. Their refusal to a two state solution, and futile hope to defeat Israel through violence and terrorism, squandered every chance for a peaceful solution.

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              Israel actually dismantled settlements after Oslo

              then quickly built new one. Even if it was Palestinian that did not respect it. Building more settlements is illegal under international law

              Hamas opposed the Accords and carried out several deadly bomb attacks against Israeli civilians in the runup to the next election

              Hamas was not part of the Oslo accords . Netanyahu himself say that he was the one who sabotaged it not Hamas

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                Hamas opposed the Accords and carried out several deadly bomb attacks against Israeli civilians in the runup to the next election Hamas was not part of the Oslo accords . Netanyahu himself say that he was the one who sabotaged it not Hamas

                Before we continue: do you believe Netanyahu was part of the Oslo Accords?

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                  What a dumb question

                  The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the PLO. Israel can’t escape from it’s obligation just because the prime minister changed. Hamas was never a member of the PLO

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        Hamas sabotaged the Oslo Accords by blowing up civilians exactly because they opposed a two state solution. (Succesfully, because this then helped Netanyahu seize power)

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          Hamas was not part of the Oslo Accords so no Hamas did not sabotaged it . Oslo Accords is still respected by the PLO while Israel continue to steal Palestinians land, arm and protects the settler terrorists. I don’t know why you keep using the same excuse Israel do

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          I also support the one state solution but many Palestinians still believe in a two state solution and Palestinian will have the right to pick which one they really want

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          That would be nice, but its basically impossible at this point. Neither side would accept the other being a part of their governance. The only way to get to one state now is, well, to do what everyone is accusing Israel of doing right now.

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      “82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child in Gaza”

      https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/05/30/poll-israelis-expel-palestinians-gaza-genocide/

      I doubt you’d have the same number from Palestinians because they are not indoctrinated from birth to dehumanise, like the Israelis are. There’s a reason corporate media in the West never interview “normal” israelis

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          Okay, I’ll bite. Let’s say that Palestinians also need to be deradicalized. Surely the first step should be to stop the ongoing genocide and apartheid?

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            Sure best thing today (for me) would seem to stop fighting, re-establish pre '67 borders and go from there.

            I don’t know what you understand under ‘end apartheid’ (it’s been thrown around rather cheaply lately) but if you mean a one-state-solution where everybody stops thinking along religious lines: I don’t really think that’s realistic in the short term

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              I’m also not sure what I mean by “end apartheid”, because I also don’t know whether it’s realistic in the short term. That would still be the most realistic path to deradicalising Palestine.

              A reasonable first step towards that long term goal would be to end the ongoing genocide. It’s hard to even speculate about possible futures when each day of needless bloodshed makes future peace more difficult.

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      There are no good guys in the Israel Palestine fight.

      Of course there aren’t. Especially not the (checks notes) starving civilians, children, the elderly, the disabled and the people wanting to live a normal life. They’re ceratainly not “in the fight”. They’re not right beside it, either. They’re magical beings made up by Khamas to make the world hate Israel.

      Both sides are the same. That’s why one should genocide the other. It is the natural order of the world, after all.

      Come on, dude/dudette. It’s not about sides. It’s about people. But there’s one thing about sides I do know: there’s one side of history you’re on. And it’s exactly the wrong one.

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      Fatah. Marwan Barghouti. Palestinian civil society calling for BDS.

      Just because Israel wants the Hamas scarecrow as its opponent doesn’t mean the rest of Palestinian society is irrelevant.

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      Really? No good guys? How about the protestors and activists? Or or or how about the MAJORITY OF PALESTINIANS STILL LEFT ALIVE WHO ARE LITERAL CHILDREN?

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      Hamas is crazy as Crazy Horse was “crazy”. You know what both have/had in common? They are/were fighting displacement of their friends and family due to colonizing powers. The only difference is the latter’s people suffered almost complete annihilation while the former is a work on progress. If the British didn’t insist on making Palestine their reservation for Jews, then Palestinian freedom fighters wouldn’t have had to fight Zionists violently encroaching upon their native land.

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      Depends on if you consider the civilians stuck in the middle of the conflict to be “in the fight”. They’re certainly casualties of it.

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        All of the land occupied by Israel is stolen from Palestinians, they would be justified in wanting them out and their homes back. But if you ask them they generally say they don’t necessarily want to evict anyone, most of the average people there just want to live and have sovereignty.

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          Would you say that a jewish Israeli whose ancestors lived there in 1800 had stolen the land from Palestinians? What if they immigrated there in 1880 and built a hut in the desert? Not to make light of the situation but I hope you understand there’s more nuance than the trope “jews arrived there on a boat in '46 and claimed the land”. The idea that we should merge all the different nations that emerged back into a resurrected Ottoman Empire to make everyone who was wronged whole again is just unworkable.

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          Your answer gives me a chuckle because I was wondering if I had to type it ‘toddler-proof’ to prevent people making a funny instead of an answer ;-)

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            The Israeli state at least, like the German Nazi state during WW2, does deserve to be destroyed. Palestinians have had a life of continual murder from advanced weaponry at the hands of Israelis, but even they still generally don’t want to kill every Israeli person.

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              Nazi Germany was only defeated through putting a genocide on the German people, forcing their leadership to give up and surrender. Do you think the Germans who were genocided ‘deserved it’?

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                Mass killings of civilians were committed against Germany and Japan, and those attacks are widely seen as war crimes, most reasonable people don’t argue that the average German or Japanese worker going about their day deserved getting firebombed. There were mass atrocities but they weren’t defeated by genocide, they were defeated by a military campaign that took out any capacity they had to wage war.

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                  Sure they were. Had the German military chosen to continue the fight through guerilla warfare à la Hamas, the Allies would have continued their genocide of Germany à la Israel. It’s the German military high command that chose to surrender instead of continuing the fight.

                  There actually was a German resistance movement against the Allied occupation forces. Little known about but they killed about 5.000 occupation troops. The Allies and the US in particular carried out the death penalty for anyone being caught attacking their occupation troops.

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        Almost certainly similar in spirit, regardless of what their Western fans like to project.

        It’s a pretty symmetrical situation, even if they have different skin colours. If only we could treat it that way (edit: then the capability gap wouldn’t be there).

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    You can already see the hallmark signs of a state funded media campaign to undermine any and all claims that the ceasefire has been broken and continues to be so.

    They’re using the fact that people are tired of seeing and reading about horrible things knowing they have no control over it. As a result, the public are now personally invested (mental wellbeing) into the ceasefire being real. Even if the bombing campaign and conditions are nearly identical to pre-“ceasefire” levels, the general public is exhausted and takes the (still propagandized) media’s coverage as truth.

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    Israel? The nation that “secretly” detonated a nuclear bomb without any repercussions after the ban?

    Israel? The nation that has a plan to nuke as many people as possible if their “promised land” is threatened?

    No, not that Israel. There’s no way.

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    They are not wrong that Israel is radicalised. However, peace is a process, and what will lead to an enduring peace is actually more important than what is just.

    If Israel was actually willing to reconcile and treat Palestinians as equals, the South African model of truth & reconciliation (including amnesty for abuses in exchange for full disclosure of what happened), it wouldn’t be just for the victims, but it would allow both sides to move on peacefully.

    The real problem is that Netanyahu, Smoltrich, Ben Gvir etc… don’t actually want peace, so even a neutral truth & reconciliation is currently unlikely to happen without their backers (especially the US) forcing them.

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    Honestly deradicalizing and demilitarizing Israel WOULD deradicalize Palestine.

    Israel put Hamas in power. Israel literally helped Iran deliver funding and weapons to Hamas for decades.

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      I think you hit the nail on the head exactly. That’s it, the whole affair in one line.

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    So here’s a comment which will probably be downvoted to hell, but I can deal with that.

    I’m almost 50 years old. Israel and Palestine (plus other surrounding countries) have never been at peace as long as I can think.

    There’s always some asshole who thinks fighting a war is the better option. If an Israeli prime minister wants to make peace, they fucking shoot him. If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.

    In the meantime, there are at least some people on both sides who wish for nothing more than peace. Yes, we can debate on which side has more of them and it’s damn certain there aren’t enough of them by far.

    But can we maybe just stop taking a side? This conflict is not about Israel or Palestine having to be deradicalized, OP, it’s about the all the warmongers and religious fundamentalists and radicals on both sides who need to be deradicalized.

    There will never be an end to this as long as I live if we continue to blame either Israel or the Palestinians. Both is wrong, both of them haven’t done nearly enough to stop this insanity.

    (But yeah, I totally agree, the current right wing Israeli government is a hopeless case if you want peace.)

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      Hamas is not Palestine and Palestine is not Hamas.

      The victims of genocide, apartheid, occupation do not have the same level of culpability as the perpetrators. And it’s not the current right wing government that’s to blame, sorry. It is the whole edifice that the Israelis have built of occupation, apartheid, and now genocide.

      You want a moderate palestinian leader? He exists. His name is Marwan Barghouti. And it’s not Hamas that has “done their own thing”. He’s in an Israeli jail, with that worm Ben Gvir torturing him.

      And if 50 years seems like a long time to you, and that they should just grow up and accept the fait accompli of the occupation and the defeat, well sorry but that says more about you. I know nothing about you but I wouldn’t be surprised if you come from a cultural background that doesn’t have a history of resistance and struggle for freedom. My Greek ancestors were occupied for 400 years. The Irish for 800. Warmongering? Wars for freedom are just wars. Peace is not the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. No justice? No peace. As simple as that.

      So yea, I’m going to take a side.

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        Hear hear, well said, as a 52 year old, (albeit I’m Lebanese and had my fair share of Israeli wars), it’s been obvious from day 1 Israel has long been practicing blatant apartheid policies in the Gaza strip, and providing IOF support to terrorist settler pogroms in the west bank. The vile entity that is the Israeli government today needs to be torn down and rebuilt to allow for a viable Palestinian state.

        I too am taking a side and fuck Israel and the IOF.

        Edit: Formatting

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        I know nothing about you but I wouldn’t be surprised if you come from a cultural background that doesn’t have a history of resistance and struggle for freedom.

        Is this some kind of attempt to dispute my right to an opinion? Or an attempt to devalue it? I know nothing about you, but come on. I’m sure you can find better arguments for your positions than thinly veiled ad hominems.

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          No, it is an attempt (maybe ham fisted, in which case I apologize) to make you reflect on whether you have the cultural middleware to really understand that 50 years of occupation is not “forever”, that longer timelines have existed. It’s a call to examine your assumptions.

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            It’s a call to examine your assumptions.

            Nope, it translated to me to “you don’t come from a background of resistance in your country, your opinions automatically don’t matter as much.”

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              “maybe ham fisted, in which case I apologize”

              So now that the misunderstanding is cleared, I call you again to examine your assumptions and blind spots.

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        No justice? No peace. As simple as that.

        And here’s another thought on this: It seems as if quite a lot of arab people (not only the Palestinians) view the mere existence of Israel as an injustice.

        Logical conclusion? Obvious…

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        Hamas is not Palestine and Palestine is not Hamas.

        I acknowledged that when I said “If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.”.

        The victims of genocide, apartheid, occupation do not have the same level of culpability as the perpetrators.

        No, they don’t. There are many blameless Palestinians. And there are Israelis who voted for the current government, they surely carry more guilt in this war than Palestinian victims.

        that they should just grow up and accept the fait accompli of the occupation and the defeat, well sorry but that says more about you

        Firstly, I never said they have to accept it. If you think war is the only means of not accepting and trying to change it, it says a lot about you. Secondly, someone else in this comment section said: “what will lead to an enduring peace is actually more important than what is just.”

        No justice? No peace. As simple as that.

        This is why this will never end.

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          I acknowledged that when I said “If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.”.

          Like I told you, it’s Israel that “mows the grass” to make sure no moderate gets ahead. Bargouti is in an Israeli jail.

          “what will lead to an enduring peace is actually more important than what is just.”

          But that’s the point: if it is not just, it will not be enduring. I don’t understand what is confusing about “no justice no peace”. Justice by the way does not mean that Palestinians get everything. It means that they get enough to feel that they have gotten a deal they can live with. Ireland is a fantastic example here actually. The Irish didn’t get a united Ireland in the early 20th century, but they got an independent country. And in the next chapter of struggle, the republicans and the unionists again didn’t get everything, but they got enough to get to a place they can live with. But Britain had to fucking let go in both cases. The Israelis have to fucking let go and they have to come to terms with what they’ve done and realize that they will have to pay some kind of reparation at the very least.

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            But that’s the point: if it is not just, it will not be enduring. I don’t understand what is confusing about “no justice no peace”.

            Nothing about it is confusing, it is very clear. And it is an absolute position that will make this conflict go on forever. Why? Because in an asymmetric conflict like this, there will always be injustice.

            You have to find a way to end this injustice with peaceful means. I refuse to accept that only violence can solve this. That’s all I am saying.

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              What absolute position? I wrote a whole paragraph after the bit that you quote exactly on why it is not an absolute position.

              Justice by the way does not mean that Palestinians get everything. It means that they get enough to feel that they have gotten a deal they can live with. Ireland is a fantastic example here actually. The Irish didn’t get a united Ireland in the early 20th century, but they got an independent country. And in the next chapter of struggle, the republicans and the unionists again didn’t get everything, but they got enough to get to a place they can live with. But Britain had to fucking let go in both cases. The Israelis have to fucking let go and they have to come to terms with what they’ve done and realize that they will have to pay some kind of reparation at the very least.

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                What absolute position? I wrote a whole paragraph after the bit that you quote exactly on why it is not an absolute position.

                Okay, I admit I didn’t pay enough attention to what you wrote. Probably because I don’t like being lectured about history.

                But in that case, even better! They tried working on a two-state solution. It was shot down, but you gotta try again. And again. And again.

                Everything Israel and the Palestinians are doing at the moment is the exact opposite. They create more violence, hatred, death, destruction and desire for vengeance, which in turn will be the fuel for more decades of war.

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                  Stop both sides-ing for goodness sake! There are no two equal sides here. There are the perpetrators and the victims of a genocide, of apartheid, and of occupation.

                  Not to mention that you are literally factually wrong. Hamas controls Gaza but the PA controls the West Bank. There is nothing the PA does that “creates violence, hatred, destruction and desire for vengeance” among Israelis. So to be extremely clear YOUR FRAMING IS FACTUALLY WRONG. The PA has recognized Israel, supports the two state solution. The PA is so actively trying to supress radicals that if you look around this thread you will see people accusing it of being collaborationists. And what do they get in response? Colonization, occupation, apartheid, and pogroms. If Israel achieves its war goals and eliminates Hamas from Gaza, the result will be that that insufferable misery also extended there. The Palestinians are literally given a choice of genocide or apartheid, of a quick fiery death or a slow bleeding death. This is Israel’s policy and it isn’t just Bibi, it is the Israeli state policy of the last 30 fucking years.

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        Religion has never been used as anything more than an excuse for pretty much any conflict. It simply can never be a legitimate casus belli.

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      But can we maybe just stop taking a side? This conflict is not about Israel or Palestine having to be deradicalized, OP, it’s about the all the warmongers and religious fundamentalists and radicals on both sides who need to be deradicalized.

      Partially incorrect, since the vast majority of Israelis clearly support the actions of their current government and army. Now, this could be due to mass propaganda inside Israel. Quite possible, but the numbers are still way too high. The level of support is higher than it was in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, where as we now know, propaganda was constant and ubiquitous.

      Moreover, it’s one of very few countries on the planet that have never had a significant peaceful period in their history. Pretty much since its establishment in 1948, Israel has been slaughtering people. Admittedly, not all of it is their fault. I don’t blame them for getting invaded literal hours after declaring independence. However, Europe has experienced this in the past as well, and yet, it managed to forge peace lasting longer than its conflicts.

      This, and more, points me to a suggestion that Israel does in fact need to be deradicalized. How we’d go about it, if confirmed to be the case, is an entirely different matter.

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        Partially incorrect, since the vast majority of Israelis clearly support the actions of their current government and army.

        I actually agree with this and nothing I said is in contradiction with this fact. There are still some Israelis, albeit far too few, who want peace.

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        You might be surprised that back until around the end of the 80’s, a Palestinian from Gaza could just drive to Tel Aviv to have a coffee with his jewish Israeli friends.

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          That’s good to know. I’m glad to hear that this was possible at some point.

          Though this fact doesn’t really change anything. I wasn’t referring strictly to Palestine. It’s not the only place that Israel has been leveling to the ground, or at least trying to.

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    I thought it was hugely funny that after two years of bombing to erase hamas, hamas still stands up armed as if they were never sffected

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    I think Israel is carrying out a genocide and even so my question is: Why not both? Whose responsibility is it, and why uniquely on Israel/Palestine?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY

    I’m not naive enough to think this is possible, I’d just be happy if world powers and neighboring countries at least stopped feeding the conflict. Oh, look at me, and I just said I wasn’t into naive hopes.

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      Sure, one side has 95% of the world’s wealth behind it and the support of the strongest military in history, but yeah both sides are equally responsible and have equal impact on whether the genocide continues…

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      The most certain way to deradicalize the Palestinians is simply to deradicalize and demilitarize the Israeli state and to dismantle its apartheid and occupation edifice.