Ghazi Hamad, of terror group's politburo, hails the major assault in which civilians were systematically murdered, saying 'there will be a second, a third, a fourth'
The Balfour Declaration, which put the creation of Israel into play, was created by the British during WW1, at a time when the entire region was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.:
His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
It’s obvious that Israel is the strongest and most strategically important ally that America has in the region today, nobody can deny that. Just like nobody can deny that Hamas, the ruling entity of Gaza for almost 15 years, is allied with and strategically important to Iran, Russia, and many of Israel and America’s other big geological adversaries. Iran supported Hamas’ recent terrorist attack on Israel because they understood that they, an Islamic theocracy, would benefit from the chaos of what appears to some as a religious war. Similarly, Russia wants chaos in the region in a desperate attempt to divert western military resources away from supporting Ukraine.
To me, none of that makes the situation simpler.
As for the clip you’ve linked, the first Arab-Israeli war was more than 20 years prior to that. And, taken in context, Biden was arguing against the Reagan administration’s plans to arm Saudi Arabia, and to that point I’m not really convinced that he was wrong…
As for claims of genocide, I’m afraid that cuts both ways:
The original Charter identified Hamas as the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine and declares its members to be Muslims who “fear God and raise the banner of Jihad in the face of the oppressors”. The charter states that “our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious” and calls for the eventual creation of an Islamic state in Palestine, in place of Israel and the Palestinian Territories,[3] and the obliteration or dissolution of Israel.
The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ Only the Gharkad tree would not do that, because it is one of the trees of the Jews.
So yeah, if you think the modern world’s oldest geopolitical conflict is simple, then you’re either way smarter than everyone else or you’re mentally reducing the problem until it confirms your existing biases. Personally I think it’s more complicated than you’re making it out to be, which is why it hasn’t been settled by 100 years of diplomacy and war.
You tried to bury this in details, but your entire explanation boils down to “US sponsors their puppet and the US’s enemies sponsor the enemies of the US’s puppet”. It’s a proxy war. That’s really about it.
You literally just admitted that it is power politics but you tried to pretend like that complicates the situation in any way.
Yes, there are more details, there are lots of things being said by different actors who all have their own idiosyncratic beliefs and ideas, many of which are fueled by ongoing conflict, but the reason the conflicts in this part of the world are so intractable doesn’t come down to those details. It comes down to the fact that the middle east has reserves of oil that are strategically significant. They are in the middle of a geopolitical tug of war.
Messy doesn’t mean complicated.
And none of this excuses the wholesale slaughter of civilians. That part in particular is not at all complicated.
The Balfour Declaration, which put the creation of Israel into play, was created by the British during WW1, at a time when the entire region was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.:
It’s obvious that Israel is the strongest and most strategically important ally that America has in the region today, nobody can deny that. Just like nobody can deny that Hamas, the ruling entity of Gaza for almost 15 years, is allied with and strategically important to Iran, Russia, and many of Israel and America’s other big geological adversaries. Iran supported Hamas’ recent terrorist attack on Israel because they understood that they, an Islamic theocracy, would benefit from the chaos of what appears to some as a religious war. Similarly, Russia wants chaos in the region in a desperate attempt to divert western military resources away from supporting Ukraine.
To me, none of that makes the situation simpler.
As for the clip you’ve linked, the first Arab-Israeli war was more than 20 years prior to that. And, taken in context, Biden was arguing against the Reagan administration’s plans to arm Saudi Arabia, and to that point I’m not really convinced that he was wrong…
As for claims of genocide, I’m afraid that cuts both ways:
1988 Charter of Hamas
So yeah, if you think the modern world’s oldest geopolitical conflict is simple, then you’re either way smarter than everyone else or you’re mentally reducing the problem until it confirms your existing biases. Personally I think it’s more complicated than you’re making it out to be, which is why it hasn’t been settled by 100 years of diplomacy and war.
You tried to bury this in details, but your entire explanation boils down to “US sponsors their puppet and the US’s enemies sponsor the enemies of the US’s puppet”. It’s a proxy war. That’s really about it.
You literally just admitted that it is power politics but you tried to pretend like that complicates the situation in any way.
Yes, there are more details, there are lots of things being said by different actors who all have their own idiosyncratic beliefs and ideas, many of which are fueled by ongoing conflict, but the reason the conflicts in this part of the world are so intractable doesn’t come down to those details. It comes down to the fact that the middle east has reserves of oil that are strategically significant. They are in the middle of a geopolitical tug of war.
Messy doesn’t mean complicated.
And none of this excuses the wholesale slaughter of civilians. That part in particular is not at all complicated.