nisseltaria
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Can't be fucked with reading the thread so I'll just tip my proposal into the morass.
Proposal: Israel could begin to end the conflict (not just this episode of it) by making a moral grandstand - halting all attacks regardless of their targets, flooding Gaza with aid, and claiming the move as a gesture of goodwill to the Palestinian people. If Hamas did not then cease attack on Israeli citizens (particularly civilians) or at the least enter negotiations with Israel, it could be clearly shown to be acting against the best interests of the Palestinian people.
Should Hamas continue to attack Israel or even step up attacks, the IDF would be justified in a massive military operation explicitly aimed at the destruction of Hamas, though it ought to use the grace period to plan for the protection/evacuation of civilians (to prevent Hamas from using them as human shields, and to lower the number killed/maimed accidentally).
It'll never happen though.
Edit: This weekend there was some old guy on a soapbox outside the Art Gallery in Sydney. He obviously had no concept of irony and was blissfully unaware of Israel's secular status; he claimed that "all Jews are racists" with regards to the Palestinans.
Proposal: Israel could begin to end the conflict (not just this episode of it) by making a moral grandstand - halting all attacks regardless of their targets, flooding Gaza with aid, and claiming the move as a gesture of goodwill to the Palestinian people. If Hamas did not then cease attack on Israeli citizens (particularly civilians) or at the least enter negotiations with Israel, it could be clearly shown to be acting against the best interests of the Palestinian people.
Should Hamas continue to attack Israel or even step up attacks, the IDF would be justified in a massive military operation explicitly aimed at the destruction of Hamas, though it ought to use the grace period to plan for the protection/evacuation of civilians (to prevent Hamas from using them as human shields, and to lower the number killed/maimed accidentally).
It'll never happen though.
Edit: This weekend there was some old guy on a soapbox outside the Art Gallery in Sydney. He obviously had no concept of irony and was blissfully unaware of Israel's secular status; he claimed that "all Jews are racists" with regards to the Palestinans.
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