bahman wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:49 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:16 am
bahman wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:29 pm
They are either not well educated or their situation was not fair or both.
That's a borderline racist statement, I would say. Are you accusing Gazans of just being ignorant people? They can find a way to run cities or make munitions, or arrange multi-front massacres, but can't educate their own children? That's your theory?
How do you explain their behavior otherwise?
You can tell what it is from exactly what they've done. It's pure genocidal, racial hatred...possibly the ugliest feature of human nature that there is, and certainly one of the most self-destructive, as well. Their hatred isn't merely genocidal, either; it's suicidal. So it's not in anybody's interest -- not the Israelis', not the Palestinians' and not the world's -- that they should be allowed to continue in it.
Look at Oct 7th. You see exactly what their venom is leading them to. And then look at the war, and you'll see exactly what payment their hatred is rendering to them. Can there possibly be any doubt that the single most important factor that will save the Palestinan people is for them to finally give up hatred?
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:16 am
Either way, continuing war is not a solution to this pitful situation that they are enduring right now.
If they want it over, then they should stop causing it. Stop attacking Israel, return the hostages, hand over HAMAS and the rockets, and make the deal...just like all the other Israeli Arabs have so smartly done.
There's nothing they have to do that others have not already done.
I have already said that that is not likely to happen
Maybe. But if you're right, the Palestinians are doomed by their own venom. I'm not so pessimistic as that: though they have caused themselves much misery, I am hopeful that there are still some sane Gazans who can reasonably at least calculate their own interests, and have some sense of right and wrong left, to which we can appeal for them to make a better choice.
But if you're right, then what will inevitably happen is that the Gazans will keep harbouring HAMAS and holding the hostages and firing rockets, which will compel Israel to continue the battle until Gaza is completely cleared of Palestinians sympathetic to HAMAS, all the tunnels are uncovered, the last rocket captured, and the last hostage either returned or dead. After that, there will never be a Palestinian Gaza again.
I don't think that's what you want, but it's what you're asking for, whether you know it or not.