I don't like these "experiments" as dang called them of allowing Reddit-like rage topics on HN. I can get that elsewhere.
‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler
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#372In ideal world international peacekeeping forces would be deployed in Gaza. The peace and two state solution could only be enforced by imposing severe sanctions on Israel including possibility of aerial NATO strikes like in the former Yugoslavia.
> international peacekeeping forces To the extent there is consensus among today’s superpower and regional powers, it’s that international peacekeepers don’t work. At best they delay while incubating a conflict.
Peacekeeping worked in the former Yugoslavia and many other places. It's more like these days it seems like the international aspect is lacking; the consensus of the so-called world community has really been in shambles for the past two decades. I think the one time where unanimous cooperation existed was against Somali piracy in the early '10s.
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#374Earlier quoted context omitted.
They may oppose the current arrangement of the government but they don't disagree with the occupation and ethnic cleansing. > Eurasia Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/05/30/poll-israelis-exp...
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>How many percent of the Palestinians in Gaza do you think want to expel the Jews from Israel?
44% of Gaza was between the age of 0-14 in 2023. I leave how psychotic this comment reads within this context as an excercise for the reader.
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#375Bunch of racist Israeli hooligans that were thrown into the Amsterdam Canals got more outrage from the international media and diplomats than a livestreamed cold blooded murder by a terrorist. This is everything you need to know about the world we live in. Palestinian lives simply do not matter.
that is evident, the puzzling thing for average people is why
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#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
Israeli here, can't directly answer your question since I've lived in the US for 99% of my adult life, but I consider myself pro-Israel and resent the way Israel is currently/always being portrayed. I see the key problem as people removing context: Context for why the current situation could easily be different if Hamas acted/acts differently, and context for why there is no "just stop fighting" option that leaves Is…
This happened in the occupied West Bank. What would you like Hamas to do differently there?
I often don't endorse the behavior of Israeli settlers. I'm responding to the question of what Israelis think about the news in general, a question to which I wanted to contribute the context of Israel's precarious existential security as a sovereign Jewish state.
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#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know the sheer number of countries that the religion behind Palestine (starting with I) invaded and occupied? They still have the fastest growing population, and based on their birth rate, they can in a few thousand years replace everyone else everywhere.
you cannot defend the genocide (murder of people) by the increased birth rates. In fact, high birth rates is caused by high mortality rates. The more jews engage in genocide and murder of Palestinians, the higher will be fertility, this is the law of demographics. as for your Islam argument, the Islamic conquest was how many millennia ago? Is your argument that today we shall live by the laws of 7th century ? This on…
> high birth rates is caused by high mortality rates.
This has been true in some places, e.g. Africa, but it is by no means a generalization. It is in fact grossly misleading because various countries have seen their Muslim populations explode while the mortality rate going down. High birth rate is more associated with religiousness than with mortality.
> the Islamic conquest was how many millennia ago?
The Islamic conquest is very much ongoing, and will continue for the next few thousand years. It now works not by wars but by demographic displacement, although this can change for the worse once more Islamic countries obtain nukes. The conquest will carry on until all non-Islamic populations have been displaced. Just ask them honestly why they have so many babies even while in modern Western cities.
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Palestinian lives simply do not matter Lives in Palestine get far more attention than Burma, West Africa, Ethiopia and Sudan [1]. The basic truth is lives far removed from us tend to be forgettable. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_confli...
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Let‘s not call people „animals“ in this negative sense. Dehumanization is at the root of these problems.