Israeli-Palestinian conflict (51 Viewers)

Is Hamas a Terrorist Organization?

  • Yes

  • No

  • Should there be a Jewish nation SOMEWHERE in the world?

  • Yes

  • No

  • Should Israel be a country located in the region it is right now?

  • Yes

  • No


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Hist

Founder of Hism
Jan 18, 2009
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Oké, I understand. What would your solution be for the Israelis?
Not commit genocide. You genuinely see no other alternative?

They’ve already regained control internally and secured the “border”. The Hamas attack worked because their intelligence and defence was asleep at the wheel and they did not anticipate the way this attack was carried out. Now they’re on high alert and can ensure they never sleep at the wheel again. There is no existential threat here. Do your job and foil attacks just like any intelligence service does.

They can exchange hostages, they can allow aid to come through, they can show maturity and restraint, and then do the hard work of surgical attacks, intelligence gathering, assassinations… the kind of thing intelligence agencies are paid to do.

In a nutshell they can stand by the values they claim to believe and represent. If you’re following international law only when it’s convenient then what’s the point. If all it takes is a terrorist attack for a supposedly liberal democratic country to do away with all the rules of war that liberal democracies freaking invented themselves, then it’s all a sham.

Israel should hold itself to a higher standard than Hamas, and if it doesn’t then at least the West should if there will be any legitimacy left to the liberal world order after this conflict.

Right now Israel is not even held to the same standard as Hamas. It’s collective punishment is supported.
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
Moderator
Apr 14, 2005
70,840
Oké, I understand. What would your solution be for the Israelis?
I believe the biggest obstacle for peace is america. The unconditional support it gives israel provides 0 incentive for their government to want or seek peace. So America's role will need to change if there's any chance for a long lasting peace.

Israels biggest concern is security. The three threats to its security are palestinians, arab states, and iran. The offer that i think would be fair and would guarantee israel security is:

-gaza plus west bank(all of the west bank): new palestinian state.
-jerusalem, internationally run or some formula like that, point is neither party can claim it.
-golan heights back to syria
-normalized relations with arab states
-automatic membership in nato for israel

The point is get israel covered security wise, give palis their own country, and isolate Iran.
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,503
Looks like there is now video, data, drone footage, and signals intercepts as hard evidence that PIJ/Hamas rocket was what hit the hospital…. but so many still on the “genocidal Israeli attack” bandwagon. Yikes. And the same news orgs and people who with zero info immediately claimed it was an Israeli airstrike gone silent now. Zero retractions.

What's even more curious, as I told my Co workers today, is this narrow focus on the propoganda disinformation war of this specific hospital, as horrible as it is it was bombed, like its the only casualty of civilians going on.


I get it was being seen more of as a the straw that broke the camels back, hence strong reactions, but I mean FFS they are levelling rest of Gaza all week?
 

X Æ A-12

Senior Member
Contributor
Sep 4, 2006
87,971
What's even more curious, as I told my Co workers today, is this narrow focus on the propoganda disinformation war of this specific hospital, as horrible as it is it was bombed, like its the only casualty of civilians going on.


I get it was being seen more of as a the straw that broke the camels back, hence strong reactions, but I mean FFS they are levelling rest of Gaza all week?
i think its because targeting of a hospital is a pretty explicit war crime, no?
 

Tomice

Senior Member
Mar 25, 2009
3,024
I believe the biggest obstacle for peace is america. The unconditional support it gives israel provides 0 incentive for their government to want or seek peace. So America's role will need to change if there's any chance for a long lasting peace.

Israels biggest concern is security. The three threats to its security are palestinians, arab states, and iran. The offer that i think would be fair and would guarantee israel security is:

-gaza plus west bank(all of the west bank): new palestinian state.
-jerusalem, internationally run or some formula like that, point is neither party can claim it.
-golan heights back to syria
-normalized relations with arab states
-automatic membership in nato for israel

The point is get israel covered security wise, give palis their own country, and isolate Iran.
You can't be serious. If you or anyone else think Israelis will ever put their future in someone else's hands then you haven't been paying attention.

We as a collective have zero trust towards both Europeans and arabs.

We've been helpless enough times in our history. It might be our downfall but those days are over.
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
Moderator
Apr 14, 2005
70,840
You can't be serious. If you or anyone else think Israelis will ever put their future in someone else's hands then you haven't been paying attention.

We've been helpless enough times in our history. It might be our downfall but those days are over.
You kinda still are though :D US support is vital to the existence of Israel. And i think boomers are the last generation to predominantly back israel. Gen X and younger will not be the rabid zionists their parent and grandparents were.

But what would your fair solution be?
 
Jun 16, 2020
12,435
I believe the biggest obstacle for peace is america. The unconditional support it gives israel provides 0 incentive for their government to want or seek peace. So America's role will need to change if there's any chance for a long lasting peace.

Israels biggest concern is security. The three threats to its security are palestinians, arab states, and iran. The offer that i think would be fair and would guarantee israel security is:

-gaza plus west bank(all of the west bank): new palestinian state.
-jerusalem, internationally run or some formula like that, point is neither party can claim it.
-golan heights back to syria
-normalized relations with arab states
-automatic membership in nato for israel

The point is get israel covered security wise, give palis their own country, and isolate Iran.
I’m glad to read this answer, because the rhetoric of ‘occupied-occupiers’ insinuated for me that the only solution would be if Israeli’s left Israel, which would be impossible given the sheer amount of people. The same goes for Palestinians both in Gaza as the West Bank obviously.

I agree with your solution but have to add that it doesn’t really matter for me if piece of land A goes to country X, and piece of land B goes to country Y, bottom line is that a diplomatic solution is probably the best option. My only interest in this conflict is keeping things safe here in Europe, because we feel tensions rising. I’m really on the more neutral front, I don’t really go with ‘everything Israel does is wrong, and the opposite for Palestina’, or vice versa. It’s more complex for me.
 

Tomice

Senior Member
Mar 25, 2009
3,024
Not commit genocide. You genuinely see no other alternative?

They’ve already regained control internally and secured the “border”. The Hamas attack worked because their intelligence and defence was asleep at the wheel and they did not anticipate the way this attack was carried out. Now they’re on high alert and can ensure they never sleep at the wheel again. There is no existential threat here. Do your job and foil attacks just like any intelligence service does.

They can exchange hostages, they can allow aid to come through, they can show maturity and restraint, and then do the hard work of surgical attacks, intelligence gathering, assassinations… the kind of thing intelligence agencies are paid to do.

In a nutshell they can stand by the values they claim to believe and represent. If you’re following international law only when it’s convenient then what’s the point. If all it takes is a terrorist attack for a supposedly liberal democratic country to do away with all the rules of war that liberal democracies freaking invented themselves, then it’s all a sham.

Israel should hold itself to a higher standard than Hamas, and if it doesn’t then at least the West should if there will be any legitimacy left to the liberal world order after this conflict.

Right now Israel is not even held to the same standard as Hamas. It’s collective punishment is supported.
We are middle Eastern country not a western one. Even if we pretende otherwise sometimes.

If you would hold us to the standards of our region we are pretty restrained.

What you can analyse coldly as "no longer existantal threat" is a privilege we dont afford ourselves and can't mentally. As a people we are in constant existential threat. Real or imagined.

I also strongly think that most outsiders can't fathom the horrific nature of this "attack". I really don't want to share some of the images and stories that happened.

And it is a shme, as the usa proved in 9/11 following your logic. If it is then way should we pretend to play that game?

And to the bold part I can only say that you should be ashamed of having written that.
 
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Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,503
i think its because targeting of a hospital is a pretty explicit war crime, no?
Are we pretending they never done it, targeted civilians?

War crimes meant nothing on Israel, as we learned on the countless UN resolutions and war crimes tribunals they just ignore and swat away due to the US (and UK and France) backing in the council.
 

X Æ A-12

Senior Member
Contributor
Sep 4, 2006
87,971
Are we pretending they never done it, targeted civilians?

War crimes meant nothing on Israel, as we learned on the countless UN resolutions and war crimes tribunals they just ignore and swat away due to the US (and UK and France) backing in the council.
i don't think anyone said that but yes im pretty sure a hospital is a particular target you aren't supposed to attack
 

Tomice

Senior Member
Mar 25, 2009
3,024
You kinda still are though :D US support is vital to the existence of Israel. And i think boomers are the last generation to predominantly back israel. Gen X and younger will not be the rabid zionists their parent and grandparents were.

But what would your fair solution be?
You know we can flip your script right?

Arab world should stop incentive palestinians to resist.

- gain full control of gaza and west bank
- Complete surrender of all militery organisations
- disarmment
- east jerusalem
- automatic membership in Nato

PLO will receive unparalleled European, israeli, American and Arab investments and funding to hugely improve quality of life.

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You kinda still are though :D US support is vital to the existence of Israel. And i think boomers are the last generation to predominantly back israel. Gen X and younger will not be the rabid zionists their parent and grandparents were.

But what would your fair solution be?
You know we can flip your script right?

Arab world should stop incentive palestinians to resist.

- gain full control of gaza and west bank
- Complete surrender of all militery organisations
- disarmment
- east jerusalem
- automatic membership in Nato

PLO will receive unparalleled European, israeli, American and Arab investments and funding to hugely improve quality of life.

Are we pretending they never done it, targeted civilians?

War crimes meant nothing on Israel, as we learned on the countless UN resolutions and war crimes tribunals they just ignore and swat away due to the US (and UK and France) backing in the council.
Are we pretending that this is the first time they ever invented a war crime or just the first time caught?
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
Moderator
Apr 14, 2005
70,840
You know we can flip your script right?

Arab world should stop incentive palestinians to resist.

- gain full control of gaza and west bank
- Complete surrender of all militery organisations
- disarmment
- east jerusalem
- automatic membership in Nato

PLO will receive unparalleled European, israeli, American and Arab investments and funding to hugely improve quality of life.

- - - Updated - - -



You know we can flip your script right?

Arab world should stop incentive palestinians to resist.

- gain full control of gaza and west bank
- Complete surrender of all militery organisations
- disarmment
- east jerusalem
- automatic membership in Nato

PLO will receive unparalleled European, israeli, American and Arab investments and funding to hugely improve quality of life.



Are we pretending that this is the first time they ever invented a war crime or just the first time caught?
We are not too far apart. Except for Jerusalem.
 

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