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I don't think anyone is advocating for the dissolution of Israel

That's exactly what many advocate. It's in the charter political documents of the Palestinian ruling authorities. Major US politicians hold this position who receive a lot of political and media support. Notable celebrities have tweeted/said "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". What do you think they mean by that besides the utter destruction of the state of Israel?

whether they'd like to be subjected to it by a foreign military power

Since the Israelis only are responding to being attacked, I fail to see how they're in any way being hypocritical.




> That's exactly what many advocate.

Sorry. I meant nobody respectable is suggesting that. Not even the respectable Palestinians.

> "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". What do you think they mean by that besides the utter destruction of the state of Israel?

A single-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians share the same rights and live under the same democratic government.

> Since the Israelis only are responding to being attacked

The said attacks are extremely ineffective. They always were, since well before Iron Dome became operational.


>Sorry. I meant nobody respectable is suggesting that. Not even the respectable Palestinians.

BDS is doing so precisely in the guise of

>A single-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians share the same rights and live under the same democratic government [and gerrymandered borders and immigration policy to create a Palestinian majority]


We can’t continue with forced evictions and settlement of occupied territories like it’s nothing because it’s wrong and serves as an excuse to radicalism for increasingly violent responses.

There is an elephant in the room and we must acknowledge it’s there so we can deal with it.


Sorry. I meant nobody respectable

So only True Scotsman are to be considered respectable? Rashida Talieb, Ilhan Omar, and other overt anti-semites who appear regularly on national media aren't "respectable"? Let me know when they're abandoned by the media and their own party like Steve King was for making racist-adjacent statements.

A single-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians share the same rights and live under the same democratic government.

Voting residents in the region don't agree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant

The said attacks are extremely ineffective.

The attempt to make this about body counts and not the initiation of hostile military action baffles me. But I disagree with "ineffective". People in Israel are being injured and dying in rocket attacks. That's not ineffective. And then if you want to think this through a bit more, you'd realize that the degree to which it is ineffective is due to the fact that Israel counter-attacks to destroy the ability of Hamas/PLO terrorists to attack them. If they didn't respond to the degree that they do, there would be more Israeli casualties.




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