There can be a one- or two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or there will be a genocide, whether slow or fast, and ongoing regional instability.
Those are the only real options and everybody involved knows that, but the West and the Netanyahu government decided they would simply ignore the Palestinian side of the equation.
Netanyahu has no desire for peace and was content with the brutal status quo of ongoing violence in Gaza and the West Bank, the resulting radicalization of some Palestinians, and the ongoing security threat to Israeli civilians that created.
In fact, Netanyahu enabled Hamas in order to keep Palestinians politically divided and the West chose to keep quiet and look the other way, at least until Hamas did what Hamas was always going to do.
The Israeli government is well aware that the easiest way to stop Hamas is by making them irrelevant by improving conditions in Gaza, ending the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank, and making partners of peaceful Palestinian political groups.
It's also aware that moves them in the direction of an eventual negotiated settlement, which Netanyahu and other hardliners have already rejected because they want all that land.
So here we are.
You don't level an entire city full of women and children to fight a handful of Hamas terrorists.
The current Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza is not about fighting Hamas. It's about blind rage and revenge.
It's also about Netanyahu covering his ass for allowing Hamas to become so powerful. A large majority of Israelis blame him for what happened.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-767880
It's also about using international sympathy to accelerate the genocidal program against Palestinians.
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Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀