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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
“The international community”: That would be the one that is loaded with anti-colonialists who are after “reparations”, having trousered and spent the foreign aid they’ve been given for decades.
Then your “widely recognised” point: On day 1 of Israel’s existence, voted into creation by the UN in 1947, the Arab neighbours declared war on Israel and the indigenous Arabs took up arms and formed a resistance. Since then, those same Arab neighbours have made war on Israel several times and Al Fatah terrorised Israel’s civilian population. What you see happening now, is a consequence of anti-Jewish fervour by the ARab neighbours, two of which (Egypt and Jordan) have since made peace with Israel.
So now, following the massacre of October 7th, Israel is doing what it has to do to destroy Hamas.
How would you destroy Hamas, Jfman?
Of course there’s “no actual evidence” in terms of your argument. There is “actual evidence” that Hamas and Hezbollah are hell bent on terrorising Israel.
But you’ve widened the argument to Palestinians in general and that means The West Bank. There, Israel is shooting itself in the foot by its appalling behaviour at the behest of the Ultras. This will eventually come back to bite Israel, imo. But it has little to do with Iran’s proxy terrorist agenda.
If you are blind to that then I can only ascribe your attitude to unfortunate prejudice.
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Israel is shooting itself in the foot everywhere. Destroying Hamas as a byproduct of the systematic destruction of Gaza isn’t (in my view) acceptable. It opens up the hypocrisy of the West, it’s weakened our authority around the globe and ultimately led to a series of events where we’ve strengthened Iran’s standing in the region.
The only hope, and it’s slim, is for someone better than Netanyahu to win the elections and seek a constructive dialogue with its neighbours. As ever, nobody is questioning the right to make a proportionate response to terrorist actions. Radicalising more people has inevitable outcomes, as do the pourous borders in Europe and the UK.
Of course, nobody will question whether the victims of future terrorist attacks condemned Israel enough or who they voted for. Those are preposterous notions we simply would not apply to anyone else, anywhere in the world.