As Palestinians pushes for statehood, Israel finds itself more isolated
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The two-state solution is still best
In defense of a cringe idea
By Matthew Yglesias | Dec 11, 2023
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-two-state-solution-is-still-best
Saying you support a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict is the most cringe position imaginable.
If you want to participate in pro-Israel politics you’re supposed to say that Israel has repeatedly offered this only to have it rejected so there’s nothing more to talk about and certainly no case for pressure. Besides, everybody knows that anti-Israel politics is just antisemitism so it doesn’t matter what the Israeli government says or does about anything. And if you want to participate in contemporary pro-Palestinian politics, you’re supposed to agree with Yousef Mounayyer that the two-state solution is dead and agree with Ben Burgis that “from the river to the sea” is nothing more than “a call for democracy and equality.”
Meanwhile, Mansour Abbas, who heads the most important political party for Palestinian citizens of Israel, supports a two-state solution.
The governments of Egypt and Jordan and of America’s allies in the Persian Gulf support a two-state solution. A two-state solution is endorsed by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. It’s also endorsed by Marwan Barghouti, the most popular Palestinian political leader, who is currently sitting in an Israeli prison for his role in orchestrating the Second Intifada. It’s backed by United Nations resolutions. In theory, it’s backed by Joe Biden, though as his critics will point out, there’s no teeth to that position since in practice US support for Israel is not conditioned on anything relevant. But a key reason that Biden’s two-statism is so hollow is that when Barack Obama tried to exert meaningful pressure toward two states, he was undercut in Congress. A lot of pro-Israel politicians in both parties are at least nominally in favor of such a solution, but they are more in favor of being pro-Israel than of any particular outcome so they don’t favor pressure — particularly in a context where the Israeli government has clearly turned the page on this.
Much more at https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-two-state-solution-is-still-best
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The "powerful, disciplined" IDF panics and shoots three Israeli hostages ...
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Israeli hostages killed mistakenly in Gaza were holding white flag, official says
Peter Beaumont
An initial IDF probe into the hostage killing incident suggests all three men were shirtless, with one carrying a makeshift white flag.
On seeing them, one Israeli soldier shouted “terrorists!” to the other forces, initiating fire at the men, according to reports.
While two hostages were hit immediately and fell to the ground, the third managed to escape into a nearby building where despite pleas in Hebrew, he was also shot and killed, a military official said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/dec/16/israel-gaza-war-liv
e-updates-hamas-hostages-idf-protest-tel-aviv-news-palestine-us-biden-ceasefire-un
Appareqntly Israelis are OK with bombing hospitals, turning a strip of land into a hellhole like the Warsaw ghetto, and killing 20,000 mostly women and children in an obvious act of genocide as evil as gas chambers... but accidentally killing three of "their own" is too great an outrage.
Well, at least Netanyahu now has to negotiate with Hamas.
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Israel Fails To Prove Targeted Gaza Hospital Was Hamas Hub: Washington Post
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-fails-prove-targeted-gaz
a-hospital-was-hamas-hub-washington-post
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Great.
Now Israel wants to expand the war to Lebanon.
Israel's Military Strikes Hezbollah Command Center In Serious Escalation
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/israels-military-strikes-hezbollah-c
ommand-center-serious-escalation
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Fears grow of Gaza diseases spreading into Israel
By Renee Ghert-Zand | 26 December 2023, 4:50 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-soldier-with-fungal-infection-dies-fe
ars-grow-of-gaza-diseases-spreading-into-israel/
The death of a badly wounded IDF soldier in an Israeli hospital who was infected with a dangerous strain of fungus while fighting in the Gaza Strip has raised concerns about disease in Gaza affecting troops and possibly spreading to Israeli civilians.
According to a Kan public broadcaster report, the soldier was brought to Assuta Ashdod Medical Center two weeks ago with severe limb injuries. Despite round-the-clock care, the fungus proved to be treatment-resistant and the soldier succumbed to his wounds.
Military medical officials have not yet determined his cause of death, but confirm that there are isolated cases of similar fungal infections among wounded soldiers returning from Gaza.
Civilian experts who spoke with The Times of Israel warned that cases of potentially deadly fungal infections — and other serious afflictions among soldiers — are less isolated than has been reported.
All Israeli hospitals have reported that a significant percentage of wounded soldiers have come back with serious antimicrobial-resistant infections that they’ve picked up through contact with contaminated soil, among other factors, said Prof. Nadav Davidovitch, an epidemiologist who heads Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s School of Public Health.
He noted that currently, there are not large numbers of soldiers sick with the illnesses spreading among Gazans.
For years, experts have warned of threats posed to Israelis’ health by severe public health deficiencies in Gaza. Conditions are considerably worse now with the near-complete lack of fuel and electricity to operate sewage treatment equipment.
Satellite images and water sampling have shown that since the war started, the water in the Mediterranean flowing northward from Gaza toward Ashkelon and beyond is more consistently contaminated with dangerous bacteria, including E. coli, and viruses.
The presence of hundreds of thousands of Israeli troops fighting Hamas in Gaza raises the possibility that at least some of them could become infected by the diseases circulating in the Strip and bring them home.
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They probably shouldn't have air-dropped into a concert and started blowing away hundreds of innocent, unarmed concert goers before raping the women and kidnapping them.
Hindsight is 20/20.
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Quote:The Israelis retaliated by killing 1% of the children living in Gaza. Next stop, 2%. Then 3%. And so forth.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They probably shouldn't have air-dropped into a concert and started blowing away hundreds of innocent, unarmed concert goers before raping the women and kidnapping them.
Hindsight is 20/20.
https://www.google.com/search?&q=how+many+children+killed+in+Gaza
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Thousands of children in Gaza have lost limbs and their dreams
Read it twice.
9,000 Palestinian children have had to amputate 1 or more limbs and 1000 children endured it without anesthesia.
6:11 AM · Dec 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1740707141558665606
Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip have lost limbs and their dreams. - UNICEF
https://www.unicef.org/sop/stories/facing-life-gaza-strip-new-disabili
ty
In the Gaza Strip, the life of any child could turn into a nightmare in the blink of an eye. Families try to keep their children safe, but this becomes harder and harder with the intense bombardments. Many houses have been destroyed, and many children ended up under the rubble. More than 9,000 children have been injured in the Gaza Strip, leaving many grappling with the loss of an arm or a leg.
This is the story about a childhood lost under the rubble, how the dreams of children turned into nightmares and an extremely difficult journey of recovery. Ghazal, a 4-year-old child from the Gaza Strip is bearing the direct impact of the war on her body. On October 12, her house was hit by shelling. She was disoriented and shocked and had an immense pain in her left leg.
Ghazal suffered a severe leg injury that wiped her smile off her face. Given the level of destruction and security concerns, the medical team could not reach her. A doctor living in her neighborhood performed a makeshift surgery to stop the bleeding from her leg.
As in many other cases in the Gaza Strip, the doctor had to carry out the surgery in inadequate conditions and without anesthesia due to the lack of medical supplies and equipment. The doctor managed to stop the bleeding. But her leg was infected. After several days, finally reaching al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the medical team was confronted with a terrible decision: they needed to amputate Ghazal’s leg.
During the process, Ghazal was accompanied by her family. As she was preparing for the amputation, her father stood by her side, holding her close and enveloping her with his love. He offered all the support and affection she needed to endure a process that no child, anywhere, should ever have to experience.
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Quote:You really shouldn't use the word "they" so vaguely. It results from, and leads to, poor reasoning. It's just as bad as SECOND calling everyone who is not him a Trumptard.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They probably shouldn't have air-dropped into a concert and started blowing away hundreds of innocent, unarmed concert goers before raping the women and kidnapping them.
Hindsight is 20/20.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
By "they", you mean Hamas, not Palestinians (who are NOT by and large Hamas).
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Maybe you're OK with attacks on UN aid workers?
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UN convoy attacked by Israel on designated 'humanitarian route'
UNRWA, which is made up of a Palestinian majority, has lost 142 of its employees due to Israel’s assault on Gaza
DEC 29, 2023
The Director of the UNRWA in the Gaza Strip, Thomas White, announced on 29 December that the Israeli army had targeted one of the organization’s aid convoys as it was returning from north Gaza on a route designated by Tel Aviv itself.
“Israeli soldiers fired at an aid convoy as it returned from Northern Gaza along a route designated by the Israeli Army,” White said via social media.
“Our international convoy leader and his team were not injured, but one vehicle sustained damage – aid workers should never be a target,” he added.
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/un-convoy-attacked-by-israel-on-desi
gnated-humanitarian-route
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