Unfair in ways including those which result in the death of thousands of women and children and displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
Gaza becoming a humanitarian tragedy on the scale it has is largely enabled by Israel being largely above criticism.
I don’t know what the best solution is to the Israel/Palestine conflict, but I doubt it includes dropping 2000 lb bombs on civilian infrastructure. I support the eradication of HAMAS because I believe they are not only inimical to Isreal but also to the Palestinian people they claim to “protect “.
It’s perfectly clear by now that Hamas is more than willing to sacrifice every Palestinian life to meet their political goals, which are not well aligned with the Palestinian people. However, Indiscriminate measures do nothing to abate the conflict, only to fuel it. Bombing civilians is the best recruiting tool that Hamas has. To bereaved Palestinian families, the war sells itself.
I shudder to think that indeed, the Israeli government knows this. It follows then that this recruitment effect is probably not an undesirable side effect, but rather an intentional goal.
I think this shares some commonality with the trickle-treatment of Ukrainian military support from the USA. We are best served by a slow, agonizing, expensive if not catastrophic defeat of Russian military capability. A quick win would not be a win for America, or for NATO. Unfortunately, this means that Ukrainian soil will be fortified with blood for decades.
I think for Isreal, the situation may be similar. Under the current playbook, “Winning” in Gaza means killing every person that can be induced to fight. This is distinct from breaking public support for HAMAS. It is a genocidal extermination of every person with a will to fight, through what amounts to a systematic process of provocation.
That said, while I don’t agree with the methodology, I do understand the reasoning and agree that the goals can be seen as worthwhile if not necessarily worth the cost of achievement.
Gaza becoming a humanitarian tragedy on the scale it has is largely enabled by Israel being largely above criticism.
I don’t know what the best solution is to the Israel/Palestine conflict, but I doubt it includes dropping 2000 lb bombs on civilian infrastructure. I support the eradication of HAMAS because I believe they are not only inimical to Isreal but also to the Palestinian people they claim to “protect “.
It’s perfectly clear by now that Hamas is more than willing to sacrifice every Palestinian life to meet their political goals, which are not well aligned with the Palestinian people. However, Indiscriminate measures do nothing to abate the conflict, only to fuel it. Bombing civilians is the best recruiting tool that Hamas has. To bereaved Palestinian families, the war sells itself.
I shudder to think that indeed, the Israeli government knows this. It follows then that this recruitment effect is probably not an undesirable side effect, but rather an intentional goal.
I think this shares some commonality with the trickle-treatment of Ukrainian military support from the USA. We are best served by a slow, agonizing, expensive if not catastrophic defeat of Russian military capability. A quick win would not be a win for America, or for NATO. Unfortunately, this means that Ukrainian soil will be fortified with blood for decades.
I think for Isreal, the situation may be similar. Under the current playbook, “Winning” in Gaza means killing every person that can be induced to fight. This is distinct from breaking public support for HAMAS. It is a genocidal extermination of every person with a will to fight, through what amounts to a systematic process of provocation.
That said, while I don’t agree with the methodology, I do understand the reasoning and agree that the goals can be seen as worthwhile if not necessarily worth the cost of achievement.