Honestly deradicalizing and demilitarizing Israel WOULD deradicalize Palestine.
Israel put Hamas in power. Israel literally helped Iran deliver funding and weapons to Hamas for decades.
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I think you hit the nail on the head exactly. That's it, the whole affair in one line.
So here's a comment which will probably be downvoted to hell, but I can deal with that.
I'm almost 50 years old. Israel and Palestine (plus other surrounding countries) have never been at peace as long as I can think.
There's always some asshole who thinks fighting a war is the better option. If an Israeli prime minister wants to make peace, they fucking shoot him. If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.
In the meantime, there are at least some people on both sides who wish for nothing more than peace. Yes, we can debate on which side has more of them and it's damn certain there aren't enough of them by far.
But can we maybe just stop taking a side? This conflict is not about Israel or Palestine having to be deradicalized, OP, it's about the all the warmongers and religious fundamentalists and radicals on both sides who need to be deradicalized.
There will never be an end to this as long as I live if we continue to blame either Israel or the Palestinians. Both is wrong, both of them haven't done nearly enough to stop this insanity.
(But yeah, I totally agree, the current right wing Israeli government is a hopeless case if you want peace.)
This war is about land and imperialist control over the middle east, not religion.
Religion has never been used as anything more than an excuse for pretty much any conflict. It simply can never be a legitimate casus belli.
Hamas is not Palestine and Palestine is not Hamas.
The victims of genocide, apartheid, occupation do not have the same level of culpability as the perpetrators. And it's not the current right wing government that's to blame, sorry. It is the whole edifice that the Israelis have built of occupation, apartheid, and now genocide.
You want a moderate palestinian leader? He exists. His name is Marwan Barghouti. And it's not Hamas that has "done their own thing". He's in an Israeli jail, with that worm Ben Gvir torturing him.
And if 50 years seems like a long time to you, and that they should just grow up and accept the fait accompli of the occupation and the defeat, well sorry but that says more about you. I know nothing about you but I wouldn't be surprised if you come from a cultural background that doesn't have a history of resistance and struggle for freedom. My Greek ancestors were occupied for 400 years. The Irish for 800. Warmongering? Wars for freedom are just wars. Peace is not the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. No justice? No peace. As simple as that.
So yea, I'm going to take a side.
Hamas is not Palestine and Palestine is not Hamas.
I acknowledged that when I said "If a Palestinian leader becomes too moderate, Hamas will do their own thing.".
The victims of genocide, apartheid, occupation do not have the same level of culpability as the perpetrators.
No, they don't. There are many blameless Palestinians. And there are Israelis who voted for the current government, they surely carry more guilt in this war than Palestinian victims.
that they should just grow up and accept the fait accompli of the occupation and the defeat, well sorry but that says more about you
Firstly, I never said they have to accept it. If you think war is the only means of not accepting and trying to change it, it says a lot about you. Secondly, someone else in this comment section said: "what will lead to an enduring peace is actually more important than what is just."
No justice? No peace. As simple as that.
This is why this will never end.
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Israel? The nation that "secretly" detonated a nuclear bomb without any repercussions after the ban?
Israel? The nation that has a plan to nuke as many people as possible if their "promised land" is threatened?
No, not that Israel. There's no way.
"82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child in Gaza"
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/05/30/poll-israelis-expel-palestinians-gaza-genocide/
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You can already see the hallmark signs of a state funded media campaign to undermine any and all claims that the ceasefire has been broken and continues to be so.
They’re using the fact that people are tired of seeing and reading about horrible things knowing they have no control over it. As a result, the public are now personally invested (mental wellbeing) into the ceasefire being real. Even if the bombing campaign and conditions are nearly identical to pre-“ceasefire” levels, the general public is exhausted and takes the (still propagandized) media’s coverage as truth.
I mean, it's really both. Hamas is batshit crazy, they're just far less militarily powerful.
There are no good guys in the Israel Palestine fight.
Hamas has power because they are resisting an apartheid state. I'm sorry but I absolutely hate this take. You can criticize a state when it gains sovereignty and is enacting unjust laws against its citizens. But when the only resistance to an apartheid state is a right wing faction that right wing faction is still correct for resistance.
Do you think the solution to the unjust Jim Crow laws of the segregation in the US South would be for Canada to start carpet bombing Atlanta? A people can not make progress within their state structures while under the thumb of oppression and apartheid.
The time to criticize the Palestinian state is after there is a sovereign Palestinian state. Hamas on paper might have right wing ideas. But Hamas as a force fighting an apartheid state against the genocide of its people is absolutely fully justified. And that's who makes up "Hamas".
The Palestinian people don't have the luxury of deciding which ideology is fighting to resist their extermination. And not until they have self determination as a people can they begin to actually progress in their civil rights.
Not to mention that few Palestinians currently alive ever voted for Hamas. The average Palestinian is 20 years old, 63% of their population is under 29. The last election was in 2006, meaning 63% of the current population would be 10 or younger when those elections happened.
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If one stops trying to subjugate the other, the other should hopefully slowly start to be calm down about the subjugation.
Years and years of people stealing land, burning houses, shooting unarmed protesters and prosecuting people unfairly only leads to more hatred, more conflict, and more war.
If there was any chance of a free and fair election in Palestine that could elect something else it would be good, but only would end up different if it came without Israel's interference and them actually staying out of Palestine. Governments like Israel and the U.S. or U.K. trying to put anyone on the ground there is more likely to cause conflicts. Where as if the UN countries all agreed to cut all trade with Israel if they didn't stop trying to instigate shit.. Israel would likely listen, or dissolve over time if they didn't. The only people who should be on the ground there is investigate journalists and AID from around the world to help those people rebuild and leave whatever can be left behind them behind them
Honest question:
Why are the US and other countries, backing Israel so hard? I've heard they have an amazing spy system, and it seems to be only politicians that back Israel unconditionally. Is it blackmail, keeping our fuck ups as status quo, or maybe "Hamas is evil no matter what?"
No, it's cultural affinity (polite way of saying racism) and economic interests (polite way of saying colonialism).
Same reason why the entire western world was fully supportive of South Africa during Apartheid
It's also propaganda, AIPAC has been pushing the idea of Israel devotion for decades in the US. I'd imagine there's similar lobbying groups (in less obvious forms) in other countries as well.
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Secular Palestinian Political Organisations existed, Bibi supported Hamas specifically to weaken the secular flanks, because it’s way easier to justify a genocide against Hamas
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I think Israel is carrying out a genocide and even so my question is: Why not both? Whose responsibility is it, and why uniquely on Israel/Palestine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY
I'm not naive enough to think this is possible, I'd just be happy if world powers and neighboring countries at least stopped feeding the conflict. Oh, look at me, and I just said I wasn't into naive hopes.
Sure, one side has 95% of the world's wealth behind it and the support of the strongest military in history, but yeah both sides are equally responsible and have equal impact on whether the genocide continues...
The most certain way to deradicalize the Palestinians is simply to deradicalize and demilitarize the Israeli state and to dismantle its apartheid and occupation edifice.
The video is stupid because Palestinian DNA traces back to the Canaanites whereas Israelis are from Poland.
They are not wrong that Israel is radicalised. However, peace is a process, and what will lead to an enduring peace is actually more important than what is just.
If Israel was actually willing to reconcile and treat Palestinians as equals, the South African model of truth & reconciliation (including amnesty for abuses in exchange for full disclosure of what happened), it wouldn't be just for the victims, but it would allow both sides to move on peacefully.
The real problem is that Netanyahu, Smoltrich, Ben Gvir etc... don't actually want peace, so even a neutral truth & reconciliation is currently unlikely to happen without their backers (especially the US) forcing them.
benjamin needs to be prosecuted like he shouldve been, before he got the PM position again.
You spelled dissolved wrong.
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