Quote (Malopox @ 14 Nov 2024 16:29)
Look, don't get me wrong, I'm trying to figure out a way to justify what Israel is doing. I've asked you several times now - what is the plan? Let's say they release the hostages, what then? You have 5-10 years of peace and have to "cut the grass" again?
It seems to me, based on your replies, Israel is cosplaying Second Boer War from a hundred years ago stage by stage. People are unable to leave (they were born there, where should they go? who would accept them?), people are held in open air camps as a punishment for actions of "the others" and there seems to be no end to this in any reasonable future. If you remember Second Boer war - the British were unable to defeat the Boers, so the implemented scorched earth tactic, burning and destroying everything they captured. Eventually they took all women, children and those unwilling to fight as hostages in an open air concentration camps. Hundreds of thousands were interned in these camps. There was no food, diseases ran rampant, people died in tens of thousands from starvation, typhoid, malaria and what else, while British tried to force the guerilla fighting men to come out of the hiding and stop terrorizing their forces.
https://i.imgur.com/Wlcf34Y.pngThe British ultimately won the Second Boer War, but at what cost?
The plan is to release the hostages and pressure them into accepting defeat. Afterward, the goal is to establish a government backed by a respected, stable country—one less corrupt than Egypt—to guide them toward self-governance eventually.
At present, I don’t see a viable path to a fully independent Palestinian state; perhaps some form of autonomy could be possible, but not full statehood.
In reality, Jordan could be seen as their state, but they want to control everything, which is where the issues arise.
This post was edited by Many_Names on Nov 14 2024 12:48pm