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By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem


The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He'd been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He'd heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. "You need to escape," somebody in the street shouted, "because they will bomb the towers".

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I posted this article even though I nominally support what Israel is doing here. This war has a legitimate human cost and there's no reason to belive that reasonable people will never view that cost as too high.

I think the story painted here shows both the horrid cost on civilian life that these bombings have and the extensive efforts to avoid civilian casualties that the IDF takes.

Short of an Jeff Bezos takeover of Gaza to turn it into the world's biggest Amazon warehouse, I literally don't know what could possibly solve the situation. It's clear from the cheering crowds praising raped corpses that there's too much hatred to reasonably integrate Gaza into greater Israel. And it's clear from the massive terror the Muslim Brotherhood caused in Egypt, that they could never integrate into an Egyptian society . And is clear from the 4-6x Marshall Plan per person they've received in aid that aid to Gaza is a black hole that will never lead to a thriving society. After 2004 I remember this optimism and a belief that this Israel/Palestine thing was really back on pace for a 2 state solution. And now I just don't see it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some solution has to be found. If Israel just empties Palestine of Palestinians and claims it all as Israel, that won't give them the safety they want from attacks by nutters. The crazy thing that is, there are right wing nutters in Israel wanting to exactly that. Ethnic cleansing is no way to peace. Even the US won't support them doing that. Even doing it salami slicing with nutty settlers isn't going unnoticed.

There needs to be a justice system to deal with nutters. You can't deal with harsh collective punishment. It's a nutters response that just creates more nutters on the other side. Which nutters of the side partly want to justify their own nuttiness and to create more of them on their own side.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that goal this time is to evict Palestinians from Gaza. I think the goal is simply to try to get a "new deal." Most terrorist organizations aren't as evil, incompetent and aren't as ridiculous as Hamas is. I mean imagine how much better Gaza would be with a Taliban-esque leadership group in charge. Or even just a leadership group physically located in Gaza.

Like how many jihadists can really be left in Gaza? At some point, they've got to run out of these idiots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some who are calling for it to be the end of Palestinians. Nuking them and other means of clearing the land.

You never run out of idiots. They will be coming to Palestinian to fight. Young men are prone to look for causes to fight for and there is a real injustice happening to Palestine.

Israel can't just kill it's way to peace. No justice, no peace.

Hamas aren't helping the Palestinian cause either because they are clearly terrorist nutters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I'm sure there are some people at that point on the Israeli political spectrum. I just don't think the ruling coalition is there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't take much sanity to see nuking would be a terrible idea.