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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
JFMan explained how and ianch99 said there should be fewer than 500 civilian casualties not the c20k that we're sadly fast approaching. No one's going to give you a military blue print!
Time to move on and answer those timely questions of Sky's:
- Is the military operation in Gaza rendering a Palestinian state politically and geographically impossible?
- How will America now respond to this?
- Israelis and Palestinians can't share power in a single state. So where now?
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Seph is basically saying that the ongoing killing & destruction in Gaza is sanctioned by him because he, personally, cannot comprehend any other solution. I am not sure I can help him with this.
To try and answer your questions:
1/ It is getting there. The killing & ethnic cleaning that is starting to emerge in Northern Gaza will not only deliver Hamas, or who ever replaces them, the next cadre of willing jihadists but it will move previously centrist Arabs in the region more towards the extremist Hamas position. This will destabilise the region further. An old testament saying seem apt here: "as you sow, so shall you reap". Israel is baking in more turmoil.
2/ The US is slowly moving towards a ceasefire position but is not there yet it seems. Don't forget the Jewish lobby in the US is a very powerful one and is ignored at your peril if you wish re-election.
3/ You say they can't share power and I suspect you are right. However, people point to the example of South Africa where an apartheid system was dismantled and a single democratic state emerged. Of course the elephant in this room is religion which fuels hatred on both sides. As history tells you, religious authority claimed over lands is tricky to reconcile.