Israel's endgame? No sign of post-war plan for Gaza
Israel is vowing to wipe out Hamas in a relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip but has no obvious endgame in sight, with no clear plan for how to govern the ravaged Palestinian enclave even if it triumphs on the battlefield.
They do have a plan, but it doesn't include finding a peaceful solution and a path to long standing peace.
Yup, the Israeli State does not give a single shit about innocent Palestinians. They're quite happy to continue oppressing them, because when the oppressed 'suddenly' become radicalised and fight back it gives the Israeli State an excellent excuse to take more land and displace more Palestinians.
Israel is showing the world it's not trying to be an apartheid state, but a genocidal one.
Anyone who thinks Israelis differentiate between Palestinians and Hamas terrorists is dreaming. It’s one people against another. If anything the Israelis lump all Palestinians together AND the Arabs in the region.
Well if everyone is dead then there is peace right /s
"negative peace "
So same as the rest of the region? There's no party with a peaceful plan here, including Palestine.
We all know what the endgame is.
Please…enlighten us
Other commenters have added good answers, basically the strong feeling everywhere is this won't stop until Hamas is utterly wiped out, and by that time Gaza will be too and it's inhabitants either destroyed or refugeed out.
Annihilation.
The plan: more settlements, more oppression, more land grabs.
FTA:
"Israel has called up a record 360,000 reservists"
Gaza has 365 square kilometers. 141 square miles.
https://www.britannica.com/summary/Gaza-Strip
That seems like an awful lot of soldiers to square meters.
You do realize that this is likely to become a 3 front war. Lebanon in the north. And Bibi has to cowtow to his settler base in the West Bank.
I could definitely see that, Israel has not been shy about invading Southern Lebanon in the past.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_Southern_Lebanon
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I'd like a single atheist state where Palestine and Israeli have equal rights but religion is strictly outlawed. But I wouldn't kill people to achieve that, so I think my endgame isn't gonna happen
But I wouldn’t kill people to achieve that, so I think my endgame isn’t gonna happen
Yes, since both other sides have extremists which aren't happy with any compromise. On both sides, they are in the government. On both sides, they are willing to kill for it, even seeing it as their religious duty. So if you're unwilling to kill and prefer another scenario, you will most definitely not get it and maybe get killed in the process. The region might have reached it's nash equilibrium in constant war.
In your ideal atheist state, what would the punishment be for religion?
fraud charges for anyone claiming it to be non fiction and censorship similar to what porn gets for religious media
Attending a satanic church service maybe
I prefer a 2 state solution, with Jerusalem being moved to the center of the Pacific Ocean.
Hey don't drop that shit on the Islanders. They are busy dealing with sinking Atolls.
Evacuate it and then dump a bunch of nuclear waste there. That way every visitor can go see God in Jerusalem.
Palestine is a secular state (at least Fatah of the West bank is, remember Hamas is a reaction to Isreal's oppression). Turns out a theological state is fine if it is the "correct religion".
This is the best summary I could come up with:
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Israel is vowing to wipe out Hamas in a relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip but has no obvious endgame in sight, with no clear plan for how to govern the ravaged Palestinian enclave even if it triumphs on the battlefield.
Codenamed "Operation Swords of Iron", the military campaign will be unmatched in its ferocity and unlike anything Israel has carried out in Gaza in the past, according to eight regional and Western officials with knowledge of the conflict who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The immediate Israeli strategy, said three regional officials familiar with discussions between the U.S. and Middle Eastern leaders, is to destroy Gaza's infrastructure, even at the cost of high civilian casualties, push the enclave's people towards the Egyptian border and go after Hamas by blowing up the labyrinth of underground tunnels the group has built to conduct its operations.
Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Biden's visit would have given him a chance to press Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to think through issues such as the proportional use of force and the longer-term plans for Gaza before any invasion.
Two regional military experts told Reuters that Hamas' armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, has mobilised for an invasion, setting up anti-tank mines and booby-trapped explosive devices to ambush troops.
Hundreds of Palestinians have died in the West Bank since the start of the year in repeated clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers, and there is widespread concern that the violence might engulf the territory as nearby Gaza burns.
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Still searching their own final solution