Every act and every announcement so far have been openly genocidal. They deny genocide with their words while engaging in genocide with their actions.
This should never be called a “war”. It is genocide.
What is more worrying is that they want to establish some puppet government of Gaza with officials who are selected by Israel, want to dismantle UNRWA, want to continue the occupation and the economic blockade of the enclave and they absolutely refuse to start talking about recognition of the state of Palestine.
Today they even announced that their Knesset has approved the building of 3300 new homes in the occupied West Bank, which speaks volumes of what their end goal is.
This is happening because Israel was too long able to act with an absolute impunity and without any real repercussions by the West, so now they have the feeling that they are above international law and this creates a really dangerous precedent.
One major reason Hamas beat out Fatah in the 2006 elections was because Fatah was a
puppet government… with officials who are selected by Israel
Israel has made absolutely no effort toward peace and, like you and other commenters point out, makes tons of effort to eradicate Palestinians and take their land, so a puppet government in Gaza will do nothing but prolong the conflict and keep these periodic “wars” coming. What’s critical to keep in mind is that Israel profits immensly from war, so they have no incentive to stop it. Quite the contrary. Bottom line is that Palestinians will either be wiped out now, or later. Unless action is taken now the human toll will only increase, and the outcome will be the same, genocide.
Literal viceroys
They’re thinning these euphemisms down to nothing, aren’t they?
And “de-radicalisation” programmes would be promoted in all religious, educational and welfare institutions. The document suggests Arab countries with experience of such programmes would be involved, though Mr Netanyahu has not specified which.
I’m concerned because I don’t think anyone actually knows how to do this. Islamist movements have evolved to resist de-radicalization and as far as I know, success of the sort Mr. Netanyahu envisions would be an unprecedented achievement rather than something he can follow an established protocol in order to accomplish.
Yeah I would love to see the de-radicalization program that works on a teenager whose entire family you just killed and whom you’ve isolated, dehumanized and put under siege his entire life.
Don’t worry guys, Netanyahu has solved terrorism! We just needed to explain to them that it’s wrong. Can’t believe we never thought of that
I don’t think that’s actually what the problem is. The historical norm appears to be that even extremely brutal wars do not on their own radicalize the defeated population. Look at eastern Europe after World War II - the Soviet Union was quickly able to subjugate it despite having given so many people there ample reason to hate Soviet rule. A more recent example is Putin’s victory against an Islamist insurgency in Chechnya.
My own impression is that radical Islamism causes wars, rather than the other way around (although I acknowledge that those wars create a feedback loop of more radicalization).
Extremely brutal wars are one thing. Genocide is another. Islam does value martyrdom and fighting against oppression, but you still need said oppression.
Islam values martyrdom for the sake of spreading Islam. Fight against oppression is historically not at all what Islam is about - rather the opposite. How do you think Palestinians ended up becoming Muslim? This religion was brought to them by the sword.
My own impression is that radical Islamism causes wars, rather than the other way around
The irony trap in being anti-religious is that one tends to overestimate the power of faith.
The historical norm appears to be that even extremely brutal wars do not on their own radicalize the defeated population.
What about Germany after WW1?
Maybe you’re right about wars overall but I think it’s quite different if innocent people were murdered en masse in an open air prison. The only way to stop the continued suffering is to overthrow the oppressor.
That would require an independent Palestinian state but somehow that doesn’t seem likely.
How many innocents do you think would die if the Israeli state would cease to exist? On October 7, the IDF was confused and absent for just a few hours and look how Palestinian terrorists used this situation. Now imagine this at a national scale.
How many innocents do you think would die if the Israeli state would cease to exist?
Didn’t suggest that.
After WWII, Germany considered the occupying Allied powers to be, well, occupiers. You know what really changed West Germany’s attitude and shifted them from resentment to better cooperation? The Berlin Airlift. They saw that the West was determined to not-abandon then to the Russians, which gave the Western powers massive credibility with the people. It’s just a shame that the West has so readily abandoned all credibility with the Arab world.
I don’t think it’s that straightforward. The Soviet Union also successfully pacified East Germany and turned it into an ally. The USA spent twenty years and two trillion dollars trying to build credibility in Afghanistan, and that was all for nothing.
The USA spent twenty years and two trillion dollars trying to build credibility in Afghanistan, and that was all for nothing.
Because they were doing it while supporting a corrupt government and bombing people willy nilly. There’s a reason the US is known for bombing weddings.
Yeah, they built credibility by checks notes giving positions of power to literal child molestors and war lords. The US spent two trillion bombing Afghanistan into the ground.
successfully pacified East Germany and turned it into an ally
By executing anyone who didn’t want to get along. Remember the 1953 uprising?
Yes, that’s my point. Credibility-building worked, and so did brutal repression. This leads me to think that there was some underlying cultural factor present in post-WWII Germany that made it governable by occupiers, by whatever means. The presence of radical Islamist movements appears to correspond to the absence of such a factor. (Sufficiently brutal repression might still work, the way it did for Putin in Chechnya, but it’s not an option for Israel.)
There are articles about what went wrong, but mostly they weren’t even trying to “nation build”. They often supported the worst kind of monsters. Like people cheered for the taliban because they removed them, the worst kind of warlords, the USA put them back in charge.
What does work is prosperity, education and peace. Only then can you have democracy. Israel had 70 years to help build up Palestine, they could have had like 3 TV channels with propaganda to build bridges and give them a life worth living. The terrorism would have made that very hard, but if you occupy a country that would have been the way to go.
I don’t think anyone actually knows how to do this.
This is just standard colonialism.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Under the plan Israel would also maintain security control over the entire area west of Jordan from land, sea and air.
He is keen to restore a crumbling reputation as a leader who can keep Israel safe and will want to appeal to right wing hardliners in his coalition government.
Israel’s military offensive was triggered by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on 7 October in which gunmen killed about 1,200 people - mainly civilians - and took 253 back to Gaza as hostages.
Overnight the head of the UN body responsible for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) warned that Gaza faces a “monumental disaster with grave implications for regional peace, security and human rights”.
Mr Netanyahu - who has accused Unrwa workers of participating in the October attacks - aims to close the agency as part of his post-war plan and replace it with - as yet unspecified - international aid organisations.
And he has insisted that he will continue his war until Israel has dismantled Hamas and Islamic Jihad - the second largest armed group in Gaza - and all Israeli hostages are returned.
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