Every time the Israeli-Palestinian conflict flares up, we are asked to pretend that this is new, this is unprecedented, the government of Israel has done everything it can, that Israel suffers the worst, and the burden of peace falls on the hopeless, destitute, and severely oppressed Palestinian people.
The government of Israel can stop this bloodshed anytime it wants. It doesn't want to. It wants to squeeze the Palestinians out of existence and it expects them to simply roll over and die.
The state of Israel has a powerful and extremely well-funded war machine, it routinely uses civilian settler militias as terror squads to uproot and destroy Palestinians' lives, and it enjoys carte blanche from the US and international community.
The situation looks hopeless for Palestinians. The deck is stacked heavily against them and no help is forthcoming. Hamas are bastards. But the Israeli government has no right to expect peaceful compliance to its genocidal agenda.
I am not defending Hamas but I would point out there are no shortage of stories of rape and violence being committed by IDF soldiers and their militias.
These stories just don't receive attention and condemnation from the rest of the world.
One side of this conflict has vastly more power than the other.
And there is one side of this conflict that has considerably more freedom to act to resolve the situation, but consistently chooses ‘security’ and military ‘solutions’, which predictably result in death.
Nowhere Girl
David Mitchell 
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