• Bassword [he/him]
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    282 years ago

    Scary times. Struggling to understand the Palestinian goals here; surely unless they somehow have a quick and total victory over Israel, the backlash against them will be horrific?

    • @dsemy@lemm.ee
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      232 years ago

      The lack of serious responses shows how ignorant people here are to this issue (even though many speak about it confidently).

      The way I see it, Hamas is trying to elicit a disproportionate response from Israel in order to jeopardize recent normalization efforts.

      • Bassword [he/him]
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        172 years ago

        That makes sense to me. I’ve heard that the Saudis and possibly other Arab states have already condemned Israel over their response.

    • @mycatiskai@lemmy.one
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      52 years ago

      It’s like a prison riot. You have to fight back knowing that you will be crushed again, but if you don’t Israel will just continue the slow slaughter of Palestinians.

      If you can try to get some breathing room and make it painful to the other side you can hope Israel will someday stop.

      • Kalash
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        2 years ago

        Has there every been a prison that had to shut down and release all the prisoners due to continious riots? It just doesn’t seem like a strategy that can actually work.

        • @mycatiskai@lemmy.one
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          22 years ago

          The difference is that the comparison shouldn’t happen because Gaza is not actually a prison so the people in it aren’t prisoners they are civilians with militants mixed in because there is no way out.

          If Israel didn’t oppress and let the people live their lives, then perhaps they wouldn’t lash out with these rocket attacks.