Few Good Options as Israel Weighs a Ground Assault on the Gaza Strip

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So genocidal slaughter then, sounds about what one would expect.

An invasion would bring heavy casualties on both sides and questions about whether Israel can devise an exit strategy for the conflict

I found this a bit amusing in a grim way, in what universe has Israel ever indicated that they have or want an exit plan from Gaza or apartheid occupation? They want to own Gaza/Palestine, theynow have an excuse to rampage and slaughter on a new level so they're taking it.
- Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Olmert was working on a plan to withdraw from West Bank next.
  
  If militant Palestinian leadership were willing to live in peace with Israel there would be peace. They've refused so many opportunities to become their own independent state because it requires allowing Israel to also exist in peace.
  
  Palestine is effectively an open air prison, it is occupied for all intents and purposes and Israelis have colonized progressively more and more land, regardless of any kind of empty political gestures.
  
  Israel has a right to exist, not a right to run an apartheid state.
  
  "Withdrawal" can be really misleading, here, because it was very much not disengagement aka leaving Gaza alone: The moved the prison guards from inside the strip to the wall surrounding it and then closed the gate and enacted a blockade, for 16 years straight now. About 50% of Gazans are 18 or under, growing up under those conditions, 80% are reliant on humanitarian aid.
  
  You can certainly make arguments that an arms blockade is warranted. But concrete? Starving the city of water? Yeah that's very much not leaving people alone.
- You mean like the rampage and slaughter last weekend?
  
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It's not inevitable, you could stop apartheid.
- You think that Israel should ignore that a thousand of their citizens were slaughtered?
  
  I wonder what could have provoked an attack like. Perhaps decades of oppressive occupation. Constantly escalating violence isn't going to fix this. But Israel is the side that can choose to end it by ending apartheid. All the imprisoned can do to improve their situation is try to fight out of it.
  
  They've killed almost 1000 in Gaza now. Are you suggesting hamas shouldn't ignore that? When does it end.
Both the Israeli government and Hamas are wrong and bad. The Israeli people and Palestinians are both indigenous to the land they share, and both have the right to live there. The median age of Palestine is under 20, the people many people in this thread are justifying the genocide of are majority children, because their parents have been killed by the Israel government in an apartheid state. The solution Netanyahu will take will be genocide of Palestinian people, when Hamas is to blame.
not committing war crimes, apartheid, and genocide is a good option
- So, they should accept the massacre and feel bad about themselves?
  
  they shouldn't respond to an attack by killing innocent civilians also they've been brutally dehumanitizing and terrorising Palestinians in Gaza for years
Gotta say that bringing up 300,000+ troops in 72 hours is very impressive.
- I guess they just have huge numbers available also due to the fact that almost all women and men are in the military service and hence reservists

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