Hamas has shown just how brutal they are willing to be the past few days and they explicitly have in their charter the destruction of Israel. Hamas given the chance would absolutely ethically cleanse all of the Levant of Jews. The PLO has a martyr fund for dying while killing Israelis. Israel not fighting would absolutely lead to complete destruction.

On the other hand, if Israel wanted to, it could completely wipe out any and all Palestinian areas. Palestine has no real air force, navy, or artillery and wouldn't be able to stop them. The only reason Israel hasn't done so is they have decided not to.

This isn't commentary on the entire conflict or the history or who is right/wrong. I'm just pointing out that this is factually incorrect.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Correct, the situation is much more nuanced than a simple sign could say. Both sides have rights and very wrongs about them. The only thing that should really be on signs should be "both sides should stop the violence and talk it through", but we all know about how well that would go. Still, star trek taught me that should be the goal.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 5 points 11 months ago

“both sides should stop the violence and talk it through”

Hard to have a sit-down talk when one side (Palestine) outright says their goal is to kill all Jews and Christians.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

yeah its sorta the reverse given hamas vs israel official stance on each others existence.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's true for both sides as they both can't tolerate one another.

I see no possible solution without a third power establishing a wide ass DMZ between the two and make sure the zone fucks over both equally. Ideally they'll stop hating each other and focus on the DMZ being ass. Might give us relative peace for like a decade or two.

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Those territories are so small that a dmz might just be the entire area....

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly, surely both will hate it. Classic parenting, if you can't play nice no one can have it, puts toy on shelf. The really expensive part is building the infrastructure needed on the little space left to house all the people displaced. But hey work for a shit ton of people

[–] Yuki@kutsuya.dev 13 points 11 months ago

Just fucking leave each other be, go fight it out in CSGO or something. Wars are fucking stupid and pointless.

[–] shiveyarbles 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The best way to end war is to put the people who declare war on the front lines.

[–] jackmarxist@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Boxing Match

[–] S8N@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

Very disturbing that more than a few people are dumb enough to believe this.

[–] Sauvandu59@lemmy.my.id 7 points 11 months ago

Very true, the creation of israel has been catastrophic for Palestinians. The British and Theodore Herzl should be blamed for this mess.

[–] undef@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

Simply Bullshit.

[–] Deestan 3 points 11 months ago

Glad I'm not a strawman. This would have fucking wrecked me.

[–] jimrob4@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah cause the whole middle east isn’t singing “from the mountains to the sea” and talking about shoving Jews into the Mediterranean Sea.

Does it hurt being dumb?

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would you not censor the face if you change the literal content of the sign?

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

And in the background is a really weirdly edited banner too.