TC Talks wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 9:42 am
Bail Bonds wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 12:44 am
Netanyahu's actions are a response to the existential threats posed by Hamas, which has a long history of aggression towards Israel. The high casualty toll is tragic but should be attributed to Hamas, which uses civilian areas as shields for its military operations. While the strain on the U.S.-Israel relationship is regrettable, Israel's security decisions are imperative in safeguarding its citizens. Netanyahu's tough stance is necessary to dismantle Hamas's capabilities and ensure Israel's long-term stability and security.
The rest of the world and many if not most of the Israeli people disagree with your logic. That is why Netanyahu is losing support, he is using a strategy that has proven to be more harmful than successful.
Turkey has suspended trade with Israel. The world’s top court is considering whether Israeli leaders have committed genocide. Protests have overtaken cities and campuses worldwide. Ireland and Spain say they will recognize Palestine as a state by the end of the month.
Even the United States — long Israel’s closest ally and benefactor — is threatening for the first time since the war began to withhold certain arms shipments.
Seven months after much of the world pledged its support to Israel following a Hamas-led terrorist attack, the country finds itself increasingly isolated. With a war that has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians and left Gaza on the verge of famine, any international good will that Israel amassed on Oct. 7 has been all but lost.
Of greatest concern to Israel: splintering relations with the United States. President Biden, once quiet about his expectations that Israel limit civilian deaths and increase access to humanitarian aid, has become more vocal amid partisan political pressure in an election year.
Plagiarized from NY Times (for BMW's benefit)
Netanyahu's loss of support has more to do with the world being unprepared for the brutality of Israel than anything else, but what will happen if third parties step in to negotiate peace or to broker some sort of deal? What does history tell us? How many times do these attacks need to happen? When you have sub-human slime paraglide into your country and attack you, its time to take the kid gloves off.
And this isn't the first time Israel has been attacked, this has been happening for many decades. The fool will point to Israel as the cause, but history teaches otherwise. Basically, this inhumane and barbaric fight will happen sooner or later, and by pulling them apart now, the only lesson learned will be that when the going gets tough, make sure more dead civilians and children end up on camera. Of course its horrifying and I hate that it is this way, but all that will happen by pulling them apart now is a guarantee that more civilians and children will be used as shields in the future because these bastards will learn that it is their most effective tactic to get what they want.
Don't be naive, stopping this war right now guarantees that it will start back up again when Hamas is good and ready. The Palestinians are in a position where their greatest motivator is fear, and they need to be taught to fear Israel's reaction to continued involvement with Hamas more than Hamas themselves. Once that happens, and the Palestinians remove Hamas, then peace can happen. But if it takes Israel removing every Palestinian to snuff out Hamas, the history of the situation is evidence enough that such an undertaking is warranted.