• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    When one side is committing genocide and the other side wants no genocide, you don’t pick the middle and support half-genocide.

    • ReCursing@lemmings.world
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      13 days ago

      More accurate would be “Committing genocide” and “Wants to commit genocide but doesn’t have the guns”, with the majority of the actual population on both sides (rather than the politicians and emboldened extremists) just wanting to not be genocided. Personally I’m picking the “chuck the politicians in a hole and let the people live” option. No idea what the ideal solution looks like but I feel like getting the fascists and religious extremists on both sides out of the equation would be a good starting point

      • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works
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        12 days ago

        Hamas wouldn’t exist if Israel didn’t commit genocide. You can’t win a war on terror. You can stop “terrorists” without hurting a single person though.

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          12 days ago

          Hamas would not exist if Israel didn’t, it’s true, but the opposition to Israel did not originally come from genocide, Israel was attacked almost immediately upon its foundation. Whether putting there was a good idea or not is debatable (well okay it was an awful idea, but one of the other places they considered was Yugoslavia, which I’m sure would have been perfectly safe!) but Hamas and their ilk did not appear in response to Israel committing genocide

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        13 days ago

        Yes, an Israeli government that recognizes Palestinians as people is the first step then hoping the olive branch extends to the other side