At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza as Israel’s punishing blockade of food, water, and other critical aid to the besieged enclave stretches into its third month amid relentless bombardment.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Saturday that most of the victims were children, as well as the sick and elderly, condemning the “continued use of food by the Israeli occupation as a weapon of war” and urging the international community to exert pressure on Israel to reopen the borders and allow in aid.
I completely lost touch with what goal both sides have. Could anyone fill me in? What is either sides end game? Does Hamas still have hostages? Why does Israel continue the hard push and where to? Etc.
Israel still wants to exterminate Palestinians so that they can fully expand into the area.
Hamas wants Israel to fuck off out of Palestine. Depending on how extreme the individual person, they may also want Israel gone entirely, or the same to all Jews. But that’s not the position of most Palestinians.
(The genocide is not the position of most Israelis, either, but enough are okay with it happening.)
It’s simpler that that: profit.
Israel will cleanse the area to make it safe and profitable for land developers. Casinos, hotels, golf courses, etc.
Trump openly stated it.
This framing kind of sucks, but it’s close.
It’s still a land grab, and they’re actively grabbing land in the west bank, in Lebanon, and in Syria.
They’re fascists that have purposefully fomented this violence as the apartheid state. They want the land and some justification they can wave around. This is why Oct 7th exists.
The irony is, the more successful they are in their depraved violence and theft, the more they will become a pariah globally. I can’t see the future, but this feels like a fascist death spiral that will end Israel.
I understand.
It’s the same human drama that’s been played out since the dawn of time. The powerful dominated the weak, and helpless.
We deserve our extinction when our sun goes red giant, but it’ll happen much sooner than that.
We’re an irredeemable species.
It is not the same human drama. Most of war and expansion focuses on different goals and usually driven by a single leader. This an organization that extend beyond a single entity. They take your tax money and they use it to fund their project.
Palestinians want to be left alone, and Israel wants them all dead because Israel decided the land belongs to them.
If Palestinians wanted to be left alone then why did they do the terriorst attack and why do they still have hostages?
The terrorist attack wasn’t perpetrated by the Palestinian state. That’s like saying that all Americans agree with the Proud Boys because they happened to be US citizens.
One side has been marginalised and it’s being cleansed as we speak right now by a highly technological nation; and the other side has been marginalised by the whole Europe and the whole Arab world for a millennia. The Palestinian situation is one of the most difficult right now.
(Adwan, S., Bar-On, D., & Naveh, E. “Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine”)
What the fuck? The Arab world until about a century ago was the best place in the world for a Jew to be by far.
This is a really disingenuous way to sane wash genocide and war crimes, backed by western dollars and politics.
It’s not difficult to call a spade a spade, as long as the fact that it’s a spade actually matters to you at all.