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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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4meAndyou · F
I think a lot of what is going on has something to do with the vengeance element inherent in BOTH cultures. Israel seems a little bit more enlightened, but Hamas is embedded like a deep tick in among the Palestinians.

When you hear the tales of horrifying murders of Israelis by Hamas, feel free to do your own fact checking. For example, one forensic doctor told of parents tied to their children at the outlying Kibbutzim, and both burned alive [i]together[/i].

I have also heard that one of the local leaders of Hamas is out for vengeance because his family died in an Israeli bombing.
TwistedApe · 51-55, M
@4meAndyou Can you clarify a little about this section please?....(When you hear the tales of horrifying murders of Israelis by Hamas, feel free to do your own fact checking. For example, one forensic doctor told of parents tied to their children at the outlying Kibbutzim, and both burned alive together.)
4meAndyou · F
@TwistedApe https://www.foxnews.com/video/6338736637112

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1697121911-israeli-emergency-responder-i-saw-20-children-shot-burned-and-piled-together-in-two-piles
TwistedApe · 51-55, M
@4meAndyou thank you, I will look at those links later.