Comment on It was in self-defence 🙃

• snek@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What do you propose Israel do about all of the missiles being fired by Hamas?

  Don’t they already have the Iron Dome? That btw lets missiles drop on “poor Palestinian areas” because their systems categorize them as “empty lands”?

  What do you suggest they do? Aside from killing every man, woman and child, of course?

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  • throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I suggest Israel root out Hamas. Then hold elections to create a Palestinian government that’s willing to negotiate with Israel for their own state

    The iron dome also isn’t perfect and doesn’t change the intent. If I make my house bullet proof and you shoot it every day in the hopes of killing me at some point I have the right to get rid of you by some method surely?

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    • snek@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To do “self defence”, all Israel had to do was guard its borders and have some diplomatic solution that didn’t completely dehumanize Palestinians, maybe policies that listen to expert opinions on these subjects and how this is causing extremism to double. They didn’t need to invade “in self defence”.

      If I make my house bullet proof and you shoot it every day in the hopes of killing me at some point I have the right to get rid of you by some method surely?

      Funny how that works both ways.

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      • throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Alright so from your perspective it seems you expect Israel to do all the heavy lifting here. Just ignore the attacks and hope Hamas is willing to negotiate one day? Even though they make it clear they want to remove Israel

        What should the Palestinians/Hamas be doing? Continuing with their current course of action until Israel decides to do something different?

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I propose Israel stop the weapons embargo on Gaza, allowing Gazans to arm themselves. The embargo obviously doesn’t work for keeping weapons from Hamas. It does, however, make the honest people of Gaza totally powerless to resist their dictators.

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It does, however, make the honest people of Gaza totally powerless to resist their dictators.

    Almost three in four Palestinians believe the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct, and the ensuing Gaza war has lifted support for the Islamist group both there and in the West Bank, a survey from a respected Palestinian polling institute found.

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    • MyEdgyAlt@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you ever wondered what those people might have experienced that works lead them to hate Israel so much?

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      • capital@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a different point, isn’t it? The comment above seems to suggest that Hamas doesn’t have support from the vast majority of Palestinians. In reality, if they had weapons, it appears they might use them the exact same way Hamas did.

        I was directly replying to that point.

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