Thousands took to the streets across Israel Saturday night to call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster and new elections, in demonstrations spanning from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Haifa and Caesarea in the north and Be’er Sheva in the south.
At a demonstration in front of the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, Yosef Angel, bereaved father and grandfather of 17-year-old Ofir Angel, who was freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza, said “You stand at the head, and are responsible for the October 7 holocaust. You are trying to escape responsibility and look for someone else to blame, shame on you.”
One state solution would be a catastrophe.
If it was a democracy, it would be a catastrophe for whom?
Those 2 countries have been fighting for 70+ years. It’s impossible for them to form a state together.
It’s like assuming Churchill and Hitler can live together in one house.
Zionists have been occupying Palestine for 75 years. This is oppressor and oppressed. An internationally backed military super power and an indigenous armed resistance. This is asymmetrical.
They are not occupying Palestine. They have their own, internationally recognized state. Of course, they are illegally occupying certain areas but those are far smaller than “the entirety of Palestine”. Having said that, the occupation of undisputed territories must end.
Mandatory Palestine encompassed all the land Israel inhabits. That land was intended to be given to the Palestinians before Israel waged a campaign of terrorism against the British and used post-WW2 sympathies to gain it.
They are occupying Palestine.
No, they are not occupying Palestine. They are occupying undisputed territories, which is, indeed, against international law and I fully condemn it.
By the same logic, Slovakia is now occupying the land of Austro-Hungarian empire because that’s what was here some years ago.
Netanyahu is acting like Hitler in this case. Remind me how peace with the Nazi’s was achieved again?
I want Netanyahu out but Considering him similar to hitler is an absolute exaggeration.
Isn’t he trying to starve 2 million people to death?
There isn’t such evidence.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/02/1228541442/palestinians-desperately-need-food-aid-how-did-the-war-in-gaza-make-food-politic
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/middleeast/famine-looms-in-gaza-israel-war-intl/index.html
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240131-🔴-live-fighting-rages-in-gaza-hamas-studying-new-truce-proposal
Sources from around the world…
Yes, there is a strong evidence that famine is present in Gaza. However, that does not mean that Netanyahu (who by the way didn’t start this) is doing his best to try to starve the people.
They’re both genocidal maniacs that want to kill all people that don’t belong to their group to expand their Lebensraum.
The Nazi’s are the most fitting comparison for israel.
Anyone with knowledge about the Holocaust can recognize that israel does everything the Nazi’s did. Murder people with more advanced weaponry. Violate all human rights. Torture camps, mass executions, mass child murder. Stealing of land.
They’re only missing the cremation ovens.
What? Israel is currently committing genocide, even in areas they successfully occupied. Nazis are the most fitting comparison I’ve seen.
The choices at this point are a flawed one state uniting two bodies, or one state with a successful ethnic cleansing. Two state solution has been taken off the table by illegal settlements of the west bank and, soon, Gaza.
One state solution is even less probable than a 2 state solution. It would immediately end up in a civil war. Israeli parties supporting only Israelis and Palestinian ones only Palestinians.
However, I need to correct you: illegal settlements help burry a 2 state solution, just like raids by Palestinians. It’s sad to see that both sides are burying the solution.
I don’t accept that thesis. Yes extremists are going to extremist. However we’ve gotten really good at identifying and arresting extremists in the last 20 years. I think the common people would be perfectly fine with the idea, as long as the Palestinians and Israelis maintain a right of return but not a right of seizing property.
Correct.
The only way a one state solution happens is if the other state ceases to exist.
Which seems to be what the hardliners on both sides of this conflict are advocating for.
Agreed.
If there was only Israel, Palestinians would not enjoy the same rights as Israelis and if there was only Palestine, Israelis would not enjoy the same rights as Palestinians.
And now add to the equation the fact that both sides have radicals.