Informed Consent

  • flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Palestinians are the only ones who can end this conflict. It’s been half a century, and they have never once been willing to accept a solution that didn’t include “Right of Return”… a mechanism by which they would overwhelmingly claim voting rights in Israel, and essentially vote Israel into an anti-Jewish Muslim theocracy.

    Israel won’t agree to any peace deal that would see it voted out of existence.

    Israel is also able to thrive even under the threat of terrorism.

    They can wait forever.

    The ball is in the Palestinians’s court.

    This conflict will be over the day they say to themselves, "hey gang… Uh, I don’t think we’re going to get our land back. And I’m tired of living in poverty. Let’s take the shit peace deal and get some land and autonomy, and look forward instead of backward.

    There’s no other way this ends. Anything else is a fantasy.

    And I’ve never seen the anti-Israel crowd come up with a single coherent rebuttal to this.

    • filister@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The whole fact that you see the wrongdoings of only one of the sides in this conflict speaks volumes.

      Sorry but you too are a product of your state media propaganda. Just from the other side of the barricade. And sorry to disappoint you but that doesn’t make you morally superior.

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        9 months ago

        I see wrongs on both sides. But I also see that Israel has a history of trying to make peace, and of making piece with their other neighbors.

        All I’ve ever seen from Palestinians is terrorism and rejecting peace deals.

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          9 months ago

          Your view on the peace process is disturbingly simplistic and inaccurate. There were attempts on both sides and both sides failed to reach a compromise but saying that all the fault lay with one of the sides comes to prove that you fail to see the issue with all its nuances.

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            9 months ago

            Oh really. Name one time in history that the Palestinians agreed to a peace deal that wouldn’t have left Israel with indefensible borders or a “right of return” which would allow Palestinians to essentially vote in overwhelming numbers to turn Israel into an anti-Jewish theocracy?

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      9 months ago

      Ah yes, why shall we grant them voting rights, it is so much better to create a humanitarian crisis, endlessly increase the buffer zones and the restrictions on the Palestinians, depriving them from food, clean water, fuel, expel them from their homes, create even more illegal settlements and then act surprised when they revolt.

      Why should we care for civilian lives on the other side of the fence. /s

      Right?

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        9 months ago

        Correct. Giving Palestinians the ability to vote Israel out of existence, and turn it into a Jew-hating Muslim theocracy is absolutely the worse option of those two.

        Peace cannot begin and end with asking Jews to opt in to suicide.

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          9 months ago

          You conveniently forget that your population is a lot higher than that of the Palestinians and even if all the Palestinians come to Israel it won’t happen. So your solution to the problem is to keep Palestinians still in this open air prison, oppress them economically, and with resources, severely restrict their freedom rights, expel them from their homes, etc. Here we are not talking about a small group of people, but a couple of millions.

          Current events displaced already 123.000 people, same people are currently sheltering in schools, etc. Soon the whole population of Palestine won’t have access to fresh water, electricity, fuel. You cannot even comprehend the extent of this. Have you ever tried to put in the shoes of the people who are living behind that fence. No. Because you simply don’t care. Do you truly believe that all of those people are complicit and deserve this suffering. If you are subject to such oppression what would you seriously do?

          So tell me now how are you any different from the people who are celebrating on the streets the civilian casualties?

          And can you please remind me what exactly you have learned from history, your own history, not too long ago. Do you truly believe long term oppression is the solution and a recipe for peace?

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            9 months ago

            You’re not considering the population growth rate in Gaza is considerably higher than in Israel.

            The demographic shift would have a massive impact on Israeli democracy, even if a complete theocracy was not immediately on the table.

            For comparison, imagine what would happen to any swing state if you introduced 20 percent of voters from deep red Alabama.

            How long until books are banned?

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            9 months ago

            My solution to the problem is a two-state solution where Palestinians take whatever Israel is willing to offer at this point.

            Palestinians have ZERO leverage in this situation. They lost. The lost decades upon decades ago.

            If they loved their children more than they hate the Jews, they would cut their losses and rebuild.

            It really is exactly that simple. Because Israel will never budge, and they are getting better and better at defense themselves over time.

            Economically, Israel is thriving. They can wait forever. That’s the political reality.

            And if you think the answer is pulling international support from Israel, consider that China or some other world power would love to have a foothold in that region, and Israel will have have no problem finding other allies if we want to give up access to intelligence in that region.