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I find it incredible that these isolated comments, of which even the various UN-backed panels can only find a handful quoted without context, is the basis for an evidence for an in…

It wasn't just him, all the governments for the last decade tried to keep the peace while enforcing the blockage but allowing cash for salaries, humanitarian aid etc which made Gaz…

Untrue. Your quoting total imports (eg concrete that was largely misappropriated to build Hamas tunnels). The amount of food delivery on average is comparable to before the war.

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Accusation of genocide is simply ridiculous considering this was without question an entirely defensive war against an enemy Hamas who wanted to commit the same atrocity repeatedly…

That's an very one-sided view, which entirely ignores that every single one of the Israeli wars were defensive (yes, including 1967 per historical consensus and eg https://www.bbc.…

I was pointing out that the simplistic theory that Netanyahu is at real risk of going to prison is not true. It's a view that's put out to turn Natenyahu into a "monster" and make …

"Netanyahu assembled a neo-Kahanist fringe coalition as a parliamentary maneuver to keep from losing his post, because it's widely believed he's going to end up in prison as soon a…

proportionality in laws of conflict also doesn't relate to numbers comparison at all

difference of 5000 fighters vs 12000 embedded civilians

Not OP, but it magically appeared by League of Nations (UN) vote in 1948. "Stealing land" is a very one-sided war to look at it. The legalities and mortality of land captured in se…

None of those had a massacre like Oct 7 with 1200 dead (and as a proportion of Israeli population count that makes it proportionally more devastating than 9/11 for Israel, not too …

It's impossible to describe Gaza 2005-2022 as indefinite subjugation. Quite the opposite. It could have become Singapore if not for Hamas.

The automated security provided a false sense of security but it turned out to be very vulnerable to a multi-pronged and carefully timed attack on a Jewish holiday. With careful pl…

I'm not aware. What are you talking about?

The 1967 borders, as strongly as they feature in all discussions, were never "agreed upon". Even the famous UN security council resolution 242 deliberately does not define those bo…

What you're apparently referring to is slight change in Hamas charter in 1997. In fact, what they actually said was "Hamas advocates the liberation of all of Palestine but is ready…

Not true. There have been serious peace attempts and real changes in every decade since 1967.

Israel supplies only a small percentage of Gaza water. Israel left in 2005, the "blockade" (which ignores the third border with Egypt) started in 2007 after Hamas seized control an…

Israel left Gaza, and uprooted its own citizens, in an attempt to follow the 1990s model of gradually letting Palestinians have self determination and seeing if it lead to a corres…

You are not arguing honestly by claiming it's 55 "commanders" vs [inflated number] civilians. It's very likely the 2:1 ratio of civilian:Hamas is correct given the intense ground b…

declassified documents revealed how in a 1987 meeting British officials raised the prospect of erecting a physical border along the entire frontier between Northern Ireland and the…

The "blockade" was Israel protecting its borders once Hamas seized control. And it's not a blockade as one side borders Egypt. For much of the time, Israel allowed goods through th…

Bizarre is viewing Israel as "oppressor" for disengaging entirely from Gaza, dismantling is own Israeli settlements despite massive protests by the seller movements, and only impos…

Israelis don't view them as less than human, that's ridiculous and refuted by numerous polls and surveys of Israeli society. Israeli Arabs are represented in the knesset and have e…