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"Officials said that Israel and Egypt were prepared to let foreigners leave the Strip which is under heavy Israeli bombardment, but Hamas had refused."

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[–] InisSieferI@kbin.social 53 points 10 months ago (75 children)

There's got to be a way to remove Hamas without killing everyone in Gaza. I hope the international community can come together to find a way. I definitely wouldn't leave it to Israel lol.

It probably involves with allying with the PLO or some more secular faction of Palestinians, and Egypt. But they'd need to give something to them or else no one has a reason to support them unless they have some victories they can point to.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (61 children)

As a retired Major-General explained on TV over here the other day, Hamas is a Insurrection Movement, which are made of 3 parts, the Political Side, the Military Side and Popular Support.

Want to destroy Hamas, destroy its popular support side.

The current indiscriminate bombing of Palestinians will never destroy it because not only does it increase the Popular Support for any Insurrection Movement against Israel, it also adds to the number of people who would join the military wing of such a movement (i.e. directly put their lives at risk), especially because for all the parroting of Israel's "human shields" propaganda, what the people there see is Israel choosing to bomb and kill their family, so even those who detest Hamas will detest Israel much much more and with good reason.

Unless Israel is willing to commit a Nazi-sized Genocide (which I suspect its current leadership would do if they thought they could get away with, hence their talk of a "second Nakba"), the solution will never be more violence.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Israel really going for a "If there's no witnesses, there's no problem" approach and killing everybody.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They're targetting and killing journalists (and were already doing so before this) and their families.

States murder journalists and their families has no other reason than to stop the truth from coming out, so taking out a couple of tens of thousand who they see as untermenschen to "tie up loose ends" is hardly going to weigh on their consciences.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

They’re targetting and killing journalists (and were already doing so before this) and their families.

Well, they ran out of MSF doctors to shoot.

[–] msage@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago

To stop people from going to extreme lenghts, you need to give them something to lose.

Those people lost everything, of course they will fight by any means necessary

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We've learned that bombing only makes people more resolved to fight in every war in the 20th and 21st centuries. There's no reason it would change now. You can't bomb away ideas.

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Underrated comment that everyone should read and understand.

[–] Sparlock@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

The Pro-Israel crowd will say it is all lies and Israel is really making good friends with all Palestinians then act all shocked that rockets keep flying from gaza at them. Bombing the shit out of Palestinians has worked SO well over the last many decades. Yet they figure 'we just didn't bomb hard enough' to make them like us!

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[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It shouldn't be left to Israel but nobody wants to do it, so we get this cluster fuck. Other surrounding nations can help and take in Palestinian refugees/stamp out Hamas, but the truth is that they don't actually care about Palestinians either.

[–] danhakimi@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago

but the truth is that they don’t actually care about Palestinians either.

They sure do. They care about keeping them in refugee camps, using Israel as a scapegoat for their own war crimes and other bullshit, refusing to let them work, often revoking their citizenship in the rare cases it's been granted! Heaven forbid a third-generation descendant of a Palestinian immigrant be allowed to work in Jordan, or own a permanent home.

[–] Sparlock@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

There’s got to be a way to remove Hamas without killing everyone in Gaza

Bibi isn't interested in that.

Netanyahu said “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. 1 Samuel 15:3 ‘Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass’," .

He's openly calling for genocide.

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[–] SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee 43 points 10 months ago (14 children)

I wonder what percentage of their rapidly diminishing military might is being used to block foreigners from leaving? seems like a poor allocation of resources... unless there's something they dont want the foreigners to tell the outside world?

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago (7 children)

It's not like they ever had a chance of winning considering their definition of winning is driving the Jews into the sea. Their whole purpose is to fuck shit up and cause maximum damage and this makes sense in that context.

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[–] snek@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

From the footage at Rafah, feels like hundreds of foreign nationals are gathered waiting an okay from Israel and Egypt. I don't see WHY Hamas would even care to stop Palestinian Americans from leaving to the states.

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Hamas intends to use those people as leverage to get their home countries to exert pressure on Israel. Hamas is basically taking them hostage.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They don't see the Palestinians, they see the Americans, and Americans are hostages and also decadents who deserve being knocked down a peg

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago (34 children)

"Israel blocks anyone and anything from going into or out of Gaza."

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[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago (8 children)

As an atheist, I’ve generally avoided that area of the world. I’m quite happy to not be directly involved in this stupidity.

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[–] roo@lemmy.one 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is the Telegraph a good source for info on this?

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 24 points 10 months ago

The Torygraph is a step up from the lowest tier tabloid.

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