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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu says entering Rafah is the only way forward.

The U.N. says more than 1 million people in Rafah are starving to death.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Just to cut your tirade short. The irony of the "bro you just fell for propaganda", is that you're literally doing that except on the other side I have no illusions about Israel. They continue to do some pretty heinous shit, including their expansion of settlements, which I believe they are continuing in the dumbest move of all time

But to remove all context from how this region got fucked to begin with is stupid. The Nakba wasn't some random event, it was during and after a civil war in the region, at a time where arguably both sides had good reasons to fight. The Israelis needed somewhere to live, and had been given it by the British government, who maybe shouldn't have but it was tricky anyway. And the Arabs on that land (now Israel/Palestine) fairly reasonably didn't want that, and decided they should attack them instead of live along side them as an Arab majority mind you

I just don't think Hamas is a good solution to the conflict. The only way I see of moving forward is to fuck Hamas off, hold an election and move towards a 2 state solution. But even that's hard as the majority of Palestinians think that they'll get their way via military action, which is definitely not the case

I'm really curious for you, do you think Palestine are completely innocent in this conflict? Is it really as straightforward to you as Israel bad?