Yeah, I see denouncing and illustrating terrorist attacks as a good thing.

Palestine isn’t a state. It never became it state. It never has been a state.

Palestinians knew who they were when they elected them.

Getting rid of misinformation is great.

Getting rid of accurately reported, gruesome images because of a government mandate flies in the face of the core principles of free speech. And it would cause real damage to the world.

Remember that it was only when the world actually saw images of the Nazi concentration camps that the world actually believed it. They’d heard about it for years, but it was largely ignored.

Horseshit.

When hundreds of civilians are murdered by terrorist, that’s not the moment to talk about rewarding the terrorists, which is exactly what they are asking Israel to do.

To be ABSOLUTELY CLEAR: Israel has offered peace deals and two state solutions many times before. Palestinians always walk away.

So this should be the moment that progressive turn to the PALESTINIANS and say, time for YOU to end the occupation by taking a peace deal that isn’t your favorite, because this terrorism shit is 1000% evil and unacceptable.

We have a lot of nightmare scenarios in the future: Trump wins, Trump loses and we get insurrection part II, Biden wins and we don’t take the house and keep the Senate, and we have at least 2 more years of gridlock while our lives continue to get shittier, etc etc.

The true tragedy is that there isn’t even a good outcome in the mix. Biden wins and Democrats take Congress. Fine, will they fix the courts? Fix student loans? Will they even try for universal healthcare? Universal Basic Income? Anything even close to meeting the moment?

So depressing.

Anyway, vote Biden so at least we don’t wind up in a fascist dictatorship.

ROFL

The international community has made no serious effort to stop Palestinian terrorism. The Palestinians themselves certainly haven’t. And for a looong time now, Israel has been extremely restrained under a a never ending shower of terrorist rocket attacks at their citizens.

Can you imagine how many decades ago this conflict would have ended if all nations had made Palestinian aid contingent of the aid recipients being pro-peace?

Oh, you walked away from the the negotiating table again? Hope you don’t get hungry any time soon.

Instead they dumped money on Arafat, who continued to use terrorism against Israel, and died a billionaire while his people lived in poverty.

The UN has given Israel precisely zero reasons to take it seriously. The UN has been at times COMICALLY anti-Israel, applying the most offensive double standards.

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Recently they took away my grandfathered-in pricing. It really costs me a ton of money.

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Every nation? Not at all. An overwhelming number of Arab nations? Yes.

I don’t disagree with any of that.

The important context is that the war in which Israel captured all that territory was a war where all of Israel’s neighbors were the aggressors.

And Israel quickly traded back land for peace, as was the case with Egypt.

And the neighboring Arab states DELIBERATELY created the Palestinian refugee crisis by refusing to take in all their former countrymen, believing that the humanitarian crisis was good politics for them, and would be a nightmare for Israel. (Correct on both counts).

I also agree that the settlements are a dick move, and purely antagonistic.

I also think Israel is using them as a bargaining chip.

I think in the Oslo Accords, Israel offered literally everything it could, and when that wasn’t enough, they leaned hard into creating settlements, a new bargaining chip, which someday they could add to future negotiations.

I also think that over time the Palestinians’ bargaining position has weakened.

Now that Israel has a security fence, the iron dome, and one of the most powerful militaries in the world, the daily threat of terrorism has been reduced to an unfortunate but livable state of existence. (This week excluded obviously)

Frankly at this point Israelis can wait out the Palestinians indefinitely, and I’m betting that when this current state of War is over, Israel is going to be in the business of securing themselves even more tightly.

I doubt if they’ll be inclined to ever offer Palestinians a peace deal as generous is the one they offered during the Oslo Accords.

Sorry, but the UN’s anti-Israel bias is extremely well documented. They’ve earned my skepticism and yours.

You think that’s bad?! You should see the chart of the evil United States low casualties versus the poor innocent Nazi casualties during WWII.

Everyone knows that body count tells the whole story!

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.

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?

Again, the sources are suspect. The UN has been widely, absurdly anti-Israel to an absolutely comical extent.

I don’t think that’s a great assessment. Israel is much better at avoiding civilian casualties than even the United States.

If they are the best in the world at minimizing civilian casualties during military operations, your definition of “very successful” might need some reexamination.

Says you.