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Israeli minister: 'We are fighting human animals'
(www.middleeastmonitor.com)
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
This is the ugly side of that. Hamas are a vile organisation full of hateful antisemites. They're also the inevitable result of every decision Isreal has made in Palestine. When people are being violently oppressed every day of their lives, that fosters hatred. When people have nothing left to lose, that fosters violence. When people have been abused for generations, they inevitably want revenge.
It's a disgusting double standard to forgive Israel's crimes, but demand that the Palestinians be perfect little angels who never feel any resentment or anger in their hearts.
In the end, it's not about who has done right or wrong, it's about who holds the power, and that has always been Isreal. So it is Isreal who bears the moral responsibility to end this conflict peacefully (and the western world supporting Isreal bears an equal responsibility to use our power to make that peace the most appealing option).
What is a peaceful solution to that?
That's not a question that I'm qualified to answer. But there are very smart people who can, if only they were allowed to bend themselves to the work of solving this problem. It would be very difficult, it would take a lot of hard work and the solution wouldn't perfectly satisfy everyone, but it could be done. And for that to happen the people with power have to want to put in that hard work and set those very smart people loose on the problem.
Even if the only solutions are imperfect, they will still be better than what is happening there right now. There is no possible universe where this is the least bad answer possible.