Quote (InsaneBobb @ Jan 21 2025 12:49pm)

If governments can be terrorist organizations, most of them really kind of are. They're a government, supported by the overwhelming majority of their population, civilian and military alike, and they're so well-loved by the jihadist neighbors of Israel that the West Bank no longer holds elections because the PA knows they'd lose to Hamas.

It's very simple, really. A terrorist organization uses threats against civilians to force civilians to call for political change from their government. A government uses military means to kill their declared enemies, then uses their propaganda machine to place all the blame squarely on the shoulders of their victims.

Hamas is a government. And their declared enemies are every man, woman, and child in Israel. And their population overwhelmingly supports them. When faced with total war, the only solution is total war. Those who are faced with total war who try to follow "rules"? Are called victims.

Quote (zorzin @ 25 Jan 2025 14:00)

With Gaza quiet, Israel is turning its focus on the West Bank. Here’s why

The Israeli military has intensified operations across the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian militant cells, imposing roadblocks and cutting communities off from the outside world.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/middleeast/israel-turning-focus-on-west-bank-intl/index.html

Quote (Many_Names @ Jan 25 2025 10:03am)

Israel should stop defending and start initiating.
In this is exactly what is happening we are done with this BS they either accept us as neighbors or they will suffer the consequences

Quote (zorzin @ 25 Jan 2025 18:29)

So I think it's fair to say that after the decimation of gaza and the soon-to-be destruction of the WB, the Palestinians aren't going to exactly be friendly towards yall. There are a lot of young disenfranchised boys who witnessed nothing but the Israeli air force bombing their homeland into rubble, and they most certainly blame Israel for their woes

Since the collective West won't let yall get away with this obvious goal of ethnically cleansing them, the question remains: How are you going to move forward?

The gazans have already shown the world that they are willing to martyr themselves in the face of overwhelming Israeli firepower, so absent genociding the entirety of them, what other options are there? I honestly feel like y'all made the situation worse for yourselves. You should have just starved them out.

Quote (zorzin @ 25 Jan 2025 17:29)

So I think it's fair to say that after the decimation of gaza and the soon-to-be destruction of the WB, the Palestinians aren't going to exactly be friendly towards yall. There are a lot of young disenfranchised boys who witnessed nothing but the Israeli air force bombing their homeland into rubble, and they most certainly blame Israel for their woes

Since the collective West won't let yall get away with this obvious goal of ethnically cleansing them, the question remains: How are you going to move forward?

The gazans have already shown the world that they are willing to martyr themselves in the face of overwhelming Israeli firepower, so absent genociding the entirety of them, what other options are there? I honestly feel like y'all made the situation worse for yourselves. You should have just starved them out.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ 26 Jan 2025 13:27)

It's fairly obvious, isn't it? Continue the status quo, every 15-20 years, radical Palestinians will get strong enough to start another intifada or Oct7-like attack, followed by Israel cleaning up and decimating their structures, but without being able to fully eradicate them, rinse and repeat.