I’m surprised this thread even exists, so futile is it. This conflict has existed for my entire life, and well before it - and all that has ever changed are the names of the two terrorist groups involved, although "The State of Israel’ has been pretty consistent.
Success of one or the other terror group is judged by numbers of dead, and by that token, The State of Israel always wins in the end. And they will this time, too, once they feel they’ve killed enough people.
The customary Western handwringing is pointless - one side has every possible advantage: numbers, weapons, funding, intel, fabulously-shaky historic moral high-ground, and absolute control of the propaganda - the other is portrayed as a mix of career-victims and habitual terrorists.
Thanks to this - and especially to the West relentlessly backing one side: we have the global rise and proliferation of militant Islam. Lovely. Sit back as Africa and most of Asia fall under its sway as the decades roll-by… So much more delicious human suffering and misery is yet to come…
Whatever the rights-and-wrongs of it all actually are, (protip: it’s ALL wrongs), the whole topic bogs-down instantly in a mire of “it’s complicated” (it’s not) and “that’s antisemitic” (criticising the State of Israel in any way shape or form).
It’s like watching the school’s worst bully (who’s been abused at home), beating-up on the creepy, pervy, thievy kid (who’s also been abused at home). It’s an ugly brutal mess, but they’d both be nothing without one-another, they’d both be nothing if they weren’t so fucking nasty, they both leave long trails of innocent victims behind them, they will both never learn to stop being shits, and they both kinda have it coming to them…
There is only one way this tit-for-tat slaughter will ever End:
I’m not advocating for it, just acknowledging the intractability of this, and the ROW’s impotence.
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