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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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Abstraction · 61-69, M
Most ordinary people on both sides just want to lead peaceful lives. Hamas is a corrupt and violent terrorist organisation. The current Israeli government is running an apartheid regime that steadily undermines and erodes any opportunity for normal lives for Palestinians. Both sides are given to misinformation. Both are supported by idealogues on either side.

I've been on both sides of the wall and talked to ordinary people. I'm on the side of all the ordinary peaceful people of both sides. They are all human beings who want to just live their lives.
@Abstraction It's frightening. I don't know what the culture and politics are of the local populations. I've read a book by a Palestinian university professor, searching in her own way for justice for Palestinians while looking for peace, back when Arafat was in power, and constantly her classes would be shut down by what she thought Israeli pressure. Once threatening her life. That's oppression on an education level, which we would hope means looking towards peace, not violence, and her words were looking for. If she was oppressed during that time, imagine now?
@Abstraction My honest worry is Israel will use this as justification to eradicate their threat. (which translates to genocide)
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@thewindupbirdchronicles I do worry about them cutting off water and food and demanding 1.1 million people to move. This creates humanitarian disasters - which is a phrase but the reality when it happens is horrific. This government has a pattern of destroying housing and banning import of any materials to rebuild... This is all a matter of public record.
@Abstraction I know. And the WHO and others are on record right now saying as hospitals are being warned to leave, that these are vulnerable populations that can't leave, if we try to move them, many will certainly die.
@Abstraction I have a hard time believing, if they are willing to attack hospitals, they want to remove their threat forever. Why risk that way?