When the war in Gaza started I supported it. I still think it had to be fought. But I realized the war had to end months ago. People wonder what happened to me and why I changed my mind. I realized three things, that would not give me respite. I simply couldn't ignore them. - ThreadSky

shaielb.bsky.social • 32 days ago

When the war in Gaza started I supported it. I still think it had to be fought. But I realized the war had to end months ago. People wonder what happened to me and why I changed my mind. I realized three things, that would not give me respite. I simply couldn't ignore them.

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hyam1.bsky.social•32 days ago

Two words: two states.

nooboftheyear.bsky.social•32 days ago

The Palestinians didn't want a state, they were given every opportunity to come to a reasonable settlement before 1948 with the Peel Commission.

Once the mandate was picked up by Israel through Balfour they should have just lived peacefully with the Israelis, which happened until Arafat.

leslieyoung.bsky.social•20 days ago

No two state is viable at this point.

hyam1.bsky.social•19 days ago

Two states or one state? Two states guarantee a future for a majority Jewish Israel. One state guarantees Israel losing its Jewish majority. Simples. (Of course a 3rd option is ethnic cleansing or even god forbid genocide.)

nooboftheyear.bsky.social•19 days ago

Genocide is a global thing. I think trump is looking for ethnic cleansing on the grounds that you cannot trust the Palestinians. Note that there was apparently a ceasefire agreed late on Oct 6 despite a number of Palestinian deaths earlier that day.

nooboftheyear.bsky.social•20 days ago

Do you mean more of the same or are palestinians bent on being peaceful neighbours now?

shaielb.bsky.social•32 days ago

1) Israel was not as careful with civilians as it should be and was not disciplining its soldiers properly leading to all sorts of issues, some of which were war crimes.

shaielb.bsky.social•32 days ago

It became apparent that the Israeli courts were not investigating these things sufficiently and they will end up before international tribunals. I was, unfortunately, correct.

shaielb.bsky.social•32 days ago

2) Israel did not have a day after plan. That meant that no matter how many Hamas terrorists the IDF kills they will not be replaced.

shaielb.bsky.social•32 days ago

It became clear that the diplomatic clock would run out (it took far longer than I expected) and when the sides were finally forced into a ceasefire, Hamas would remain in power. I was, unfortunately, correct.

shaielb.bsky.social•32 days ago

3) That the Netanyahu government was motivated at least partially by an attempt to survive and keep Ben-Gvir and Smotrich in the coalition and not by the strategic interests of Israel.

shaielb.bsky.social•32 days ago

That could lead to needless bloodshed and a needless delay in the release of the hostages. I was, unfortunately, correct.

meirbenzeev.bsky.social•32 days ago

War is never a task moral people enjoy doing but it has to be done for moral reasons when necessary.

wendyorent.bsky.social•32 days ago

It also must be said that the Netanyahu administration, and Netanyahu himself, did not give a rat's ass about the hostages.
It was never about the hostages.

hwwouwu.bsky.social•29 days ago

Since day one of the war, the IDF was dropping 2000 pound bombs in residential neighnorboods, caring neither for Gazans or the hostages themselves.

The "war" should never have began at all.

jonerikstorm.com•24 days ago

>The "war" should never have began at all.

Who started it?

leslieyoung.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hamas.

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