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I am getting close to giving a more detailed assessment on Israel/Hamas, as it drags on.

And it will probably be Nostr-only since other platforms can’t handle it. It is too polarized. Everyone is tunnel-visioned.

My husband is currently in Cairo dealing with some property work we are doing for our extended family. They are only 250 miles from the problem, and Egypt’s acute currency crisis brings it closer to home if military or refugee shit hits the fan. Most of my extended family is geopolitically or financially close to the Israel/Gaza issue and is Muslim. I am thus both close and far from the issue. And I grew up in the US in a diverse region with Jewish and Muslim peers, but more-so Jewish overall.

Suffice to say, I don’t want civilians on either side to suffer or die. I am pro-humanity first and foremost.

Before I give my eventual analysis, I am happy to see Nostr comments on the issue. What are your thoughts and questions on the topic? What would you like to see addressed from a diverse or as non-biased source as possible?

c42c347a... 2y ago

As part of your reflections on the topic I would encourage you to honestly answer the likely outcome of two questions:

1, What would happen if tomorrow Israel laid down their weapons and said they would fight no more?

2. What would happen if tomorrow Palestinians laid down their weapons and said they would fight no more?

In the first case, Israel would be annihilated. In the second case, there would be peace.

One side wants to live in peace and simply exist. The other side does not recognize the others right to exist.

It's not about land or borders. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. If it was about borders, Palestine would be a separate state today, but they've rejected every single concession over the last few decades. Those in power don't want a state that also recognizes Israel's right to exist. As demonstrated all over the world, Palestinians, their sympathizers, and the Muslim world in general, hate Jews and want them destroyed.

Any honest reflection on your part should present those facts plainly.

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sut01 2y ago

oh the good vs evil naive narrative

UltraMB 2y ago

That is what I have heard forever as well. But on deeper inspection, the issue is with all the Palestinians that fled after the first war and were never allowed back into the land Israel took / where they lived inside 1948 Israel. Now I can make sense of that because 700k-1M + people that don’t really like Israel living in Israel is something I don’t think would work out? But the false narrative that “why don’t the other Arab countries take them in” keeps propagating. The Palestinians are nothing like the surrounding Arab Nations. We will never know what would have happened if everyone accepted the 1948 borders and UN agreement.

But here we are. And make no mistake. The Likud and conservative Israeli population wants to get rid of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. They aren’t going about it like Hamas does against Israel, but there are bad things happening to innocent people in Gaza and the West Bank by Israelis.

I wish it were as simple as Palestinians lay down their arms. But we live in the real world and something must really be done to bring the Palestinians out of the dumpster they are in for them to live in peace.