We will dance again

Israel’s response was not “genocidal.” That’s just your prejudice speaking.

If genocide concerns you, I hope you are devoting a lot of time to helping the people of the Darfur region of Sudan?

@VideoKilledRadioStar I will never condone what Hamas did on October 7th

I will always condemn what Israel's genocidal response has been.

He should be in the Hague, with Netanyahu.

Because the Arab states disagreed with the UN resolution in 1947 granting Jewish people a state of their own.

https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2024/1004/1473561-israel-reax/

"The elders have repeatedly called on the US to restrain Israel's actions."former president of Ireland and and chair of The Elders Mary Robinson has said.

"The Elders condemn violence against civilians on all sides, but we see coordinated action to protect Israeli civilians from attack by Iran, and that stands in stark contrast to the lack of any protection for Palestinian civilians in Gaza and Lebanese civilians."

"The Elders absolutely agree with Israel's right to defend itself, right to live as a state in peace in the region. That's what we've always championed.

"But there is a disproportionate aggressive response by Israel at the moment and that needs to be reined in and could be reined in by stopping supplying the weapons."

I don't understand what it will take for the US and UK and other countries to stop funding and facilitating this conflict.

It's ridiculous that a year has gone by and the violence continues.

It is a fact and your post should not be deleted.

Absolutely no idea why my post got deleted.

The young ravers dancing to psytrance at the Nova Festival were drawn from the pacifist, peacenik Left of Israeli society. No doubt many would have wholeheartedly agreed with your noble peace-loving sentiments, especially when the MDMA kicked in.

Hamas slaughtered them all the same.

What can be done about the fact that Palestinian leader vows to annihilate Israel?

www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hunted-yet-unrepentant-yahya-sinwar-remains-committed-israels-destruction-2024-10-04/

Following your logic, the borders can be withdrawn in Israel, to return some of the occupied (stolen) land to the Palestinians who inhabited it. Israel has been creating borders in its favour for decades. It needs to stop. It is an occupation, it is apartheid (Amnesty International) and academics and genocide experts see it as a genocide.

An ordinary person who sees mass slaughter for 12 months and the decimation of infrastructures plus the blocking of aid can call it a genocide if they wish. It pretty much fits the definition. The government continues to make its intent clear: to raze Gaze; to rid the land of Palestinians.

Palestine is a state, recognised by the majority of the UN members. It has its own flag, its own government, universities and schools (a governed education system) and a government health care system.

Believing all of the above, alongside condemning the October 7th attacks by Hamas as abhorrent whilst also understanding that as occupied people, they are desperate for the occupation to end - is not impossible or contradictory.

I would love, as a pacifist, to see Israel and Palestine thrive as coexistent neighbours, with all people of those lands having equal human rights. It seems impossible.

We must all educate ourselves from every angle to overcome our biases, our prejudices, our contempt of those we see as 'other' or less worthy or even less than human. If we stopped believing that our perceived enemy hates us and wants to kill us and started believing that they want us to be safe and happy and look out for us as neighbours, we might be able to make that shift to peace possible. It is a difficult journey to really examine your conscience and takes a huge amount of courage to question your beliefs.

Peace for all. Equal rights for all.

Jerusalem and the holy land is a special place . Also very fertile . To answer the question. Christian, Judaism and Islam consider this land sacred.

Because the surrounding Arab nations didn't want self-determination for Jewish people in their (the Jewish people's) homeland, because they were anti-Semitic. They'd much rather have it all to themselves, which is what they were trying to achieve but failed miserably.

Yes...borders are redrawn all the time. New countries are formed. Just look at northern Cyprus.

Why were Israel attacked?

my post was deleted. In my very short post I mentioned that Hamas wanted the eradication of Israel and Jews and that Hamas are terrorists. All factual and absolutely no reason for the post to be deleted. Ill wait for this
one to be deleted now....

Absolutely true. We can expect this conflict to continue in one form and other for ? How many years . A new generation of terrorists have been cemented and now do we understand what can create the breeding ground for terrorism ? To see the killing of all the people around you ?

Israel provokes Palestinians by letting settlers on their land, Palestinians respond. Israel cries it’s been attacked.

Ad nauseum.

No sane person can justify oct 7. It isnt possible to justify barbaric murder of innocent people.

But this idea that hamas can be eradicated isn't true. I think it is just going to produce more people who want to fight back.

Socrates said "you can kill a man but not an idea"

He wasn't wrong.

I'm sorry, I don't understand.
What then happened to the land? Was it kept and settled by Israelis? Or kept as some sort of empty buffer zone? Why wasn't the land given back?

"Ugh" could you explain what you mean please

If hamas didn't massacre without a reason, are you saying that they were justified on 7th October?

I was responding to your post, which didn’t specify ICJ.

In any case, the ICJ ruled that Gaza Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide, which is as far as they can say without the USA withdrawing their funding.

I honestly think anyone who doesn’t see that Hamas need to be eradicated and the war needs to continue until they put up the white flag of surrender,
Eradicated as in slaughtered? War as in annihilation? 43,000 innocent people who just happen to live or breathe in the vicinity? Wake up.