Is genocide logically required by Israel's stated objective of eradicating Hamas? It looks that way. Israel demonstrably believes that to wipe out Hamas, it must use overwhelming and indiscriminate force in the Gaza Strip, killing tens of thousands, wounding and starving so many others, and destroying homes, hospitals, and infrastructure. If that is not, in effect, a massive recruitment campaign for Hamas, what would be?
So what to do? Simple: wipe everyone out so the inevitably traumatized kids won't grow up radicalized and join Hamas to seek vengeance for their dead relatives and miserable childhoods. Is that so hard to understand, Israel and Israel partisans?
I know we're not supposed to mention Hitler, but it might be worth re-learning that the Hitler Youth recruited its members from young people who had suffered under Britain's starvation blockade of Germany during World War I -- a blockade that lasted several months after the armistice. Those kids didn't grow up resisting Nazism.
I don't even think that the Israeli leaders care about eradicating Hamas. They want to drive all the Palestinians out of the territory, or kill them, and are using the argument of eradicating Hamas as their excuse for doing it. They have to know that they will never eradicate Hamas.
ReplyDeleteSorry if this sounds extreme, but at this point I think that Israel has forfeited it's right to exist as a state. The State of Israel should be dissolved, the Israelis should all be relocated to friendly nations, and the Palestinians should be allowed to reclaim all their land, from the river to the sea. The UN nations who formed Israel should bear the cost of rebuilding Palestine for the Palestinians. Just my opinion. This will never happen, but it should.
A just settlement would not involve the forced transfer of anyone anywhere. All past injustices cannot be undone without committing a host of new ones.
DeleteThe Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their land by the Israelis. They are entitled to get it all back. Which implies that the Israelis must vacate the land, unless they can voluntarily bargain with the Palestinians for ownership of the land.
DeleteI sympathize, but note that many innocents have died in efforts to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Also, some land was purchased, a small amount, yes.
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