Israel-Gaza war

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They found the bodies of 40 babies in a kibbutz.

The US can't stop what's to come now. No one can. That's not an endorsement of it, that's just a statement of fact. This isn't 9/11, this is the impact of Pearl Harbor combined with the sadism of the Holocaust, and it's unleashed something in Israel that won't be put back in the bottle.

I'm actually disgusted right now. Does Hamas have any humanity in them?

That was a rhetorical question btw. Idk how the hell Israel is going to deal with the occupation of the Gaza strip if ppl have become that radicalized. Nightmare scenario.

My concern is that they invade the Gaza strip without a real post-war strategy. Although this is a vastly different conflict, the lessons of Iraq should be in everybody's mind. Nonetheless, I believe Israel has no choice but try to go after Hamas with full force.

The problem is that the obvious answer for post-invasion Gaza, "turn administration back over to the PA and Fatah," would last all of a week or two before Hamas reemerges.

is "UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Gaza Strip" a remotely viable and politically feasible as a possibility?

Actually, does the Arab League do peacekeeping missions? or maybe peacekeepers from North Africa, seconded from the African Union??

i think the far more likely option is bibi goes for resettling of gaza with israelis, undoing with sharon did, and making palesitinians leave by coercian/force/etc

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good article on europe's impotence in foreign policy

https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-hamas-war-europe-eu-power-irrelevance/

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"Egypt rejects any displacement of Palestinians into Sinai, says Sisi"

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians would reject the forced displacement of millions of Palestinians into Sinai, adding that any such move would turn the peninsula into a base for attacks against Israel.

Would you want them?

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4262981-scotlands-first-minister-says-country-willing-to-take-gaza-refugees/

Scotland does

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Israel seems to be prosecuting a total war - civilians are combatants for better or worse

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after the war concludes, perhaps the peace treaty should resemble the treaty of sevres and include population exchanges that settle demographic questions

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had pan arab socialism had a chance to fully take root, we'd likely have seen a decline of religiously motivated conflicts in the middle east

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have any nations committed to taking palestinian refugees? i see nothing from the us, europe, arab nations, etc...

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Where will the money to rebuild Gaza come from