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  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If you really think that Israel casually choosing to disarm itself doesn’t immediately end with it being destroyed, I’d invite you to look at the 2005 IDF withdrawal from Gaza, which was done as a token of goodwill on the path to peace.

    Gazans then elected Hamas and immediately began launching rockets. Israel won’t make that mistake again.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, both the Fatah and Gaza because both know that Palestinian people have largely become fed up with their combined inefficacy in trying to make a country of millions with a superior military just disappear.

        Not to mention Iran constantly intervening to keep Hamas armed enough to suppress dissent.

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        “They”, meaning the Israeli government, couldn’t force an election because they withdrew from Gaza and have no direct power there. Hamas suspended democracy to any meaningful degree because they don’t care about it. In the West Bank, elections have been suspended by the Palestinian Authority because it’s likely that Hamas would win them and create another Gaza, which Israel would not allow to happen.