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Israel was taken by surprise by the most ambitious operation Hamas has ever launched from Gaza.

The scale of what's been happening is unprecedented. Hamas breached the wire that separates Gaza from Israel in multiple places in the most serious cross-border attack Israel has faced in more than a generation.

It came a day after the 50th anniversary of the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria in 1973 that started a major Middle East war. The significance of the date will not have been lost on the Hamas leadership.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is at war and will exact a heavy price from its enemies.

Videos and photos of dead Israelis, civilians as well as soldiers, are all over social media.

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[-] MTK@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

They came for the civilians, they shot families in their homes, literal children and babies. No stone provoked this.

[-] rockyTron@lemm.ee 75 points 1 year ago

The Israeli settlers did this first in the forties when they invaded and colonized Palestine, indiscriminate violence was their M.O., so yes the first stone was thrown two generations ago. Not excusing the violence today, but it is not unexpected nor unprecedented by either side of this conflict.

[-] samokosik@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

how many times has palestine been offered land for peace? Many - In 1948, 1967 and even later there were offers which mentioned connecting palestine and gaza. all the times, palestinians refused it.

Hence why I am under the impression that they are more responsible for this conflict.

[-] argues_semantics@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

This is like somebody moving into your home and then you accept a couple of the bedrooms and one of the bathrooms, believing it to be an appropriate compromise.

[-] samokosik@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Not really. It’s definitely a bit tough to judge who did the dessert belong to. But historically, there was a point in time when jews were living in that area.

[-] argues_semantics@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Historically, there was a point in time, is such a slippery slope. We could play that geography game all day.

[-] jimbolauski@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That's his point claiming it belongs to one group or another over simplifies what's happened in that region.

[-] Loudergood@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

The pie is big enough, but someone takes another slice every year.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

But that time you're talking about all this land was recognized as Palestine. Prior to 1948 no government or country in the planet recognized any Israeli claim to this land.

[-] samokosik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It has been recognized as palestine for a logn long time (since rome), though state was never present. Palestine as a state never existed and thoughts about creating a palestinian state began after Ww2

[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You have a pizza.

I take 3/4 of it onto my plate, without asking, as you look on in horror.

I suggest we "compromise" and split it 50/50. After all, your grandad took my grandad's pizza when they were both kids. You owe me.

Someone please explain to me how this is different

[-] argues_semantics@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

To speak less in analogies and just cite history, Palestine was ruled by the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until 1917. After their defeat in WWI, Britain took control of the region under the British Mandate for Palestine, basically controlling all of the region west of the River Jordan. Up until 1947, approximately 420,000 Jews immigrated to the region where the population was about 600k Jews to 1.2M Arabs in Palestine.

In 1948, Britain left which meant an opportunity for a coalition of Arab states to attempt to take back “what was theirs” 31 years ago. The Jews were able to defend the region and have since been encroaching further and further outside of that area they defended previously.

Before all of this “modern” history, from the 7th century to the 16th, the region was controlled by Islamic states and Christian crusaders (who took the land for themselves, not for the Jews, and even killed a lot of Jews — think hundreds of thousands, if not more — during their occupation).

We can continue to go back in history to Roman rule, Egyptian rule, etc. but how far back in time are we willing to go to, going back to your analogy, determine how much of the pizza you should be entitled to? What of the rest of the world? It’s a good question and I obviously don’t have the answer but I’m also trying to understand as best as I’m able to.

With that being said, none of that history warrants the atrocities being committed by either side. If the two sides could co-exist in a United Israel-Palestine state, that would be the ideal resolution in my mind. Unfortunately, due to the overwhelming religious zeal on one side and a superiority complex on the other, that’s just a pipe dream.

[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing to add or contribute here just wanted to say thanks for the very thoughtful response.

I think you hit the nail on the head with the question of how far we should go back to work out how the "pizza" should be shared. I don't think there is an answer to that. If you go too far back it's ludicrous and if you think too short term it's totally unfair.

Agree about the solution. Unfortunately it seems like people on both sides want innocents to die instead 🤷‍♂️

[-] bestnerd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I had no idea. Why wouldn’t they take the offers

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Thats like asking why Ukrainian wont just accecpt Russians offer for peace. They have their homeland stolen, and then should be happy with a little bit of it after the fact?

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

This is Lemmy, there are quite a lot of American teens who don't know why Ukraine shouldn't do exactly as you say.

[-] bestnerd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean that’s a solid point

[-] danhakimi@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Jewish subjects under the British mandate rebelled against the British government and the Nazi-aligned muftis. This, after decades of oppression against the Jews of the colony; finally, they declared their independence.

A lot of people are excusing, and in many cases celebrating the violence today. They love to see Jews die. This is nothing new.

[-] bestnerd@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

No one is saying Jews need to or should die. The argument is larger than that. Israel has don’t some fucking horrible things to Palestinians. Palestine rejected land deals and peace. It’s horrible to see what’s happening. No one should be praising Hamas,

[-] danhakimi@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Now do apartheid South Africa. Easy to see who the baddies are.

[-] jimbolauski@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

That area has been under conflict for 1,000s of years claiming that it's the Palestinians land is very short sided.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The Bible say so 🤷‍♂️

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