Speaking as an American Jew, Hamas should release the hostages. Until they do, a ceasefire feels impossible.
Hamas doesn’t give a fuck about peace, ceasefires, children, or anything else.
That doesn’t mean Israel should get carte blanche to do whatever they want. Let’s not forget that prominent members of the current Israeli government have expressed very clear genocidal desires of their own.
Honestly? Yeah I don’t see any way around this than to simply predicate all aid to the region on conditions.
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Israel on the demand that not one more brick be laid anywhere outside Israel’s borders and a plan with enforcement mechanisms to dismantle the settlements that are there in order to guarantee the possibility of a sustainable Palestinian state with an economy under their own control (I.e that trade, commerce, construction, monetary policy be Palestinian and not imposed by Israel). That reparations be paid to families of the victims of this bombing campaign and settler violence over the years, that those who perpetrated violence be brought to justice.
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Palestine on the condition that they renounce the right of return, that they apprehend and surrender all militants to an international tribunal, that they recognize Israel, that they pay reparations to the families of Israelis that have been killed over the years.
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Egypt and Jordan on the demand that they participate in the enforcement of the above.
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for all parties, that Jerusalem be declared either an international city, or joint capital (split East-West).
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that Iran be completely isolated from the region. This is a tough one, they have their fingers deep within Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon.
It’s unclear how anything else can work.
If this requires a permanent UN military mission with the right to shoot to kill any threat all along the border of both Palestine and Israel, I’m fine with it. If it means Israel bitches and moans about how unfair it is, who cares. It’s about time they respected and enforced the law. If it means Palestinians need to fight to dismantle their own militant orgs and fight for peace, at least they will have a light at the end of that tunnel instead of the despair of the past 70 years (and earlier too, tbh).
“No talks until you give up your leverage”
Preconditions for a ceasefire mean you aren’t serious about a ceasefire.
As an american jew, hostages don’t justify genocide. Never again means never again.
Yeah the one genocide of Jews that Hamas charter states as their end goal is never justified and whoever does justify it because it aligns with their leftist ideology can die in a ditch like all the terrorists
Why “both are wrong” is such a complicated concept to understand?
Hamas is super wrong to start this ugly war, for keeping civilians hostage.
Israeli army is super wrong for mass shellings and complete disregard for civilian casualties.
Commanders on both sides of the conflict should be brought to justice.
But telling rights from wrongs isn’t the top priority right now. Civilians are dying, and this has to be stopped right now. And right now, this is in the hands of Israel.
Technically this is more US news than world news, but it’s World News enough, and has enough up and down votes that I’ll allow it.
Rule of thumb:
Event happening somewhere in the world outside the US? - World News.
Article about how Americans feel about an event happening in the world outside the US? - Not world news. Maybe news, maybe politics, would depend on the context.
But Americans reacting to a world event doesn’t make it world news.
So wait… lemme get this straight; the USA isn’t in the world?
The US is OUTSIDE or SEPARATE from the world.
Ok. Got it.
Glad this is an opportunity for people to see how nuanced these issues can be.
Good thing this is making more people anti-Zionist and acknowledge that criticism of Israel is not criticism of Jews.
Some American Jews. Mostly the women.
