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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Or go back to the Balfour Declaration. You can always find an earlier cause. The destruction of the Temple.
Yep.
Yes, it's a mess now. I think the answer has to do with figuring out what Israel can do to make Palestinians want to back someone more moderate than Hamas.
Look at Northern Ireland. There are a lot of key figures on both sides who were closely tied to terrorist acts at an earlier time. Clausewitz said that war was the continuation of politics by other means. Terrorism is too, no?
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“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Right. But when one goes to that level, he takes himself outside the rule of law and declares himself subject to the rule of power.
If one chooses that arena, he’d better have serious power. Hamas does not. So the following becomes inescapable:
Hamas are a mix of corrupt sorts who don’t care about sacrificing innocent Palestinians and fools bought off cheaply by their Iranian financiers. Useful idiots.
The corrupt and stupid tend to cause situations where they die with a lot of collateral damage. That’s what’s happening here. Israel stands in relation to Gaza where we stood in relation to Afghanistan in 2001.
Hopefully, Israel does it better.
