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[+] 48 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    IDF soldiers have murdered plenty of children. It is routine and I don't care if they are protesting, they are entitled to protest oppression.

    Hamas are disgusting and Israel are cunts but Hamas is because of what Israel does.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well if you casually leave out that part it becomes a lie by omission. And there's a reason you have to use this lie both to yourself and to others. It has a whole different ring to it when you say "IDF regularly shoot teenagers throwing molotov cocktails in protest" instead of "routinely murdering children".

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    We (the EU at least) also send a lot of aid to Palestinians.

    Israel should be sanctioned and decolonized like South Africa was.

    And I, for one, believe that that would have happened a long time ago if the Palestinians had followed the Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi playbook.

    Perhaps I am wrong. Like the rest of the world, I also don't have the solution for this quagmire.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago

    The experiment has actually been running already. The Gaza Strip is run by Hamas, which is violent and pushes back against Israel however they can. The West Bank is run by Fatah, which has been attempting to keep good relations with Israel and work with them.

    Despite that, the West Bank has seen a continuing encroachment of illegal Israeli settlers, continuing violence directed at Palestinians, both by the settlers moving in there and by the Israeli army. The reason the border with Gaza was so ill-defended was because Netanyahu had moved much of the force usually stationed there into the West Bank. Palestinian deaths in the West Bank has been rising.

    I don't think the Mahatma Ghandi approach is likely to work in the Middle East. At least no better than any other approach people have been trying has been working there.

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  • [+] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The only way to disarm "the whole region" would be to basically level all of it and make it totally uninhabitable.

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