I have zero problems criticising the shitty Israeli government. There were mass protests by their own people for a lot of the same reasons as I have, so why would I?
I have to say tho, it’s also not easy to ignore their point that they are not the ones using civilians as meat-shields and hospitals as military bases, which has been confirmed at least in one, very significant case.
The hard truth is that the situation is way past the point of a peaceful resolution. It’s both parties fault and it’s bad, but that’s how it is. My only hope is that with international pressure (including Germany’s btw.) the two-states solution will finally be seen through. Israel already stated they do not want to permanently occupy Gaza, so I guess that’s a start.
I do judge them for not giving civilians more time to evacuate and not providing them with more supplies tho. With the amount of soldiers at their disposal this should totally be a possibility. If it isn’t, they can ask others to help with that or something else.
“There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
I have zero problems criticising the shitty Israeli government. There were mass protests by their own people for a lot of the same reasons as I have, so why would I?
I have to say tho, it’s also not easy to ignore their point that they are not the ones using civilians as meat-shields and hospitals as military bases, which has been confirmed at least in one, very significant case.
The hard truth is that the situation is way past the point of a peaceful resolution. It’s both parties fault and it’s bad, but that’s how it is. My only hope is that with international pressure (including Germany’s btw.) the two-states solution will finally be seen through. Israel already stated they do not want to permanently occupy Gaza, so I guess that’s a start.
I do judge them for not giving civilians more time to evacuate and not providing them with more supplies tho. With the amount of soldiers at their disposal this should totally be a possibility. If it isn’t, they can ask others to help with that or something else.
“There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
They absolutely have been using male Gazans as human shield, which is something the IDF as been doing since operation Cast Lead.