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Thoughts On the Gaza Fighting...... What is really going on over there?

Firstly, I will state that my inclination is to be supportive of Israel and its right to exist.
Secondly, I find it hard to believe anything that the mainstream media says anymore especially after the Lies and Propaganda that it happily vomited out of its corrupt mouths during the COVID and Ukraine affairs.

As a past professional military man, I have studied the military battles fought by Israel for it survival. But as a man of Western culture, I do find it hard to really comprehend the visceral hatred that is smouldering in the population of the Middle East. I know that it is there, and to a certain extent, I get it. But what I can’t grasp is the inability to find a compromise, peaceful co-existence.

Purely as a practical security point of view, no morals being considered, it would seem practical for Israel to bulldoze the Gaza strip into the sea. It has been a festering sore of hatred and violence for so long now. Excise it and remove it. On the Flip side, taking a moral approach. I am sure there are many innocent people who have no choice but to be Palestinians and stay there.

I am concerned that the media is only telling us what they want us to hear, like the aforementioned COVID and Ukraine stories. When they talk about the atrocities of Hamas, did they actually do them? Or was it like Buche in Ukraine, where it was the Ukrainian SPD who killed suspected Russian sympathisers and then blamed it on the Russians?

I have absolutely no doubt that atrocities have occurred in this attack by Hamas, but was it to the scale the western media portrays?
Anther thing that concerns me it that Prime Minister Netanyahu has had to make a coalition with seriously radical Right-Wing Jews. If he wants to keep in government, the PM now faces a very much band of action in which to manoeuvre in. The more radial, Left or Right, Religious or Secular, the harder it is to make a compromise.
Also, the other side of the coin is that Iran and other Islamic nations have declared openly and with total credulity that they want Israel destroyed and obliterated. Mmm much room to manoeuvre there? NO!

If yu respond to this post. Don’t be stupid and through up party lines and ideological rubbish. Give me a thoughtful response that we can all incorporate into the big picture.
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carpediem · 61-69, M
They want Israel to disappear. Anything short of that is unacceptable. You can wish it's all going to be better and everyone lives in peace, but that is NOT what the desired goal is now, or ever was.

Netanyahu needs to be more forceful with this incursion than ever before. This will never end as long as Hamas controls Gaza. It's time to eradicate Hamas from the earth. Maybe then peace loving Palestinians, if there are any and I believe there are, can live a life worth living. They surely can't under the control of these Hamas terrorists.
TwistedApe · 51-55, M
@carpediem That seems to pretty much in line with what I believe. Apparently Israeli companies had approached Hamas with offers of water assistance and were turned down because they did nor want to work with Israel!
carpediem · 61-69, M
@TwistedApe Hatred from ideologs. The people living under their rule are living a terrible life. Not a single person seems to give a crap about that. They simply want to pretend Israel is committing some sort of genocide. Idiots...
TwistedApe · 51-55, M
@carpediem It goes back to the Evil Oppressor vs Undeserving Victim mentality, I guess. In the early days of the state of Israel, it was the "underdog". Now it is a thriving and vibrant country and the Arabs are still living in a semi-feudal society, the roles have reversed. Though, keeping in mind the birth of Israel was not without controversy and violence (I am thinking of the bombing of the King David Hotel).
carpediem · 61-69, M
@TwistedApe Israelis are moving ahead living lives and creating a society worth living in. The Palestinians are doing the exact opposite. They teach their children to hate.