I mean the State, which the government operates.
The State which has the monopoly on the legitimate (as defined by itself) use of violence, through its laws and regulations and sub-organizations and shaping of society. The State that is an apartheid State.
I’d argue that the condition for peace is the dismantling of the Israeli state (in its current apartheid form)
Except Zionism was started by secular Jews and Zionists today are mostly Evangelical Christians. Israel and its creation has always been colonial and not religious. Religion is mostly a fig leaf/cover for it.
To paraphrase from Ilan Pappe, “Most Zionists don’t believe in God, but they believe God promised them Israel”
If only it were about religion (hint: it’s never been about religion)
Hamas is an idea. Even if every single Hamas fighter were magically killed instantly, Hamas 2 would pop up because of what Israel has done and continues to do. Hamas itself doesn’t really matter.
Also lumping together Iraqi jihadis (as you call them) with Palestinians and their liberation resistance movement is kinda racist. They’re not the same.
For the record I do not advocate for Hamas, nor do I support their actions but their existence is inevitable.
The real question you should be asking is why is there a fascist ethnostate in the first place? And why is it propped up by Western countries?
You’re clearly blind, not because you can’t see the atrocities being committed but because you either don’t want to or don’t care to.
I’m done trying to convince you of anything.
Genocide isn’t about the number of deaths. It’s about the intent.
If you listen to what Israelis and Israeli leaders are saying, and the pattern of actions, it fits the definition of genocide.
In previous cases of genocide, explicit statements of intent wasn’t required to call it as such (and we have them this time), as the actions and patterns of behaviour were enough to ascribe intent.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
1 Killing members of the group;
2 Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3 Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4 Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5 Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Only one of the list needs to be fulfilled in order to be considered genocide. 1, 2, and 3 have been demonstrated. With intent.
Even if we put genocide aside, you cannot deny the ethnic cleansing aspect.
Imagine a bunch of foreigners coming in, and deciding that the majority of your farmable land should belong to them.
Oh wait, I don’t have to. That’s how Israel was created.
I’d prefer pre-1947 borders but pre-1967 is better than nothing.
Hamas has made an offer of surrendering completely, returning the prisoners of war (as well as any hostages) and leaving forever in exchange for a Palestinian state. Israel has repeatedly rejected that deal. I wonder why?
How are the refugees supposed to make it across the occupied Philadelphi corridor when the IDF is known to shoot on sight, and recklessly?
The Philadelphi corridor, which is the border separating Egypt and Gaza is currently controlled by and occupied by Israel, as they refused to withdraw from it as stipulated in the previous ceasefire agreement that they largely ignored.
Israel controls it? In case you weren’t aware
If you actually believe they would have been allowed back after, I have a Riviera to sell you.
Biden (and Trump’s) proposed plan all line up pretty nicely with these leaked documents from the Israeli government. https://www.972mag.com/intelligence-ministry-gaza-population-transfer/
The document unequivocally and explicitly recommends transferring Palestinian civilians from Gaza as the desired outcome of the war
The transfer plan is divided into several stages. In the first stage, action must be taken so that the population of Gaza “evacuates south,” while the air strikes focus on the northern Gaza Strip
The document also says that the United States should be enlisted in the process to exert pressure on Egypt to absorb the Palestinian residents of Gaza, and that other European countries — particularly Greece and Spain — as well as Canada should help absorb and settle the Palestinian refugees.
The Intelligence Ministry document states that Egypt will have an “obligation under international law to allow the passage of the population,” and that the United States can contribute to the process by “exerting pressure on Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE to contribute to the initiative, either with resources or with the absorption of displaced persons.”
If you think any of these stories are false, then you haven’t been paying attention.
This is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Have you considered why “another one pops up”?
It’s because you can’t kill an idea. And by brutalizing the general populace, and committing genocide, they’re spreading the idea. They have made generations of new orphans, and new recruits for Hamas, (and if not Hamas, whichever group pops up afterwards) with the wanton destruction they are perpetuating.
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