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Yeah, why don't the Palestinians give up and just accept being ethnically cleansed? I mean, they're Arabs why don't they just move in with the other Arabs, they're all one big homogeneous group, right?
Somewhat ironically, the biggest impediment is Hamas mission to genocide the Jews.
And if they are not let back in who will hold Israel accountable? Many of the people being bombed refuse to leave their homes for this very reason (as well as the south getting targeted by bombs/no shelter/no supplies either way so might as well keep whatever semblance of dignity they have left). They don't trust Israel to allow them to return home due to historical precedent.
Tell that to the people that refuse to leave their house due to what I previously described. The last election in Gaza was in 2006. The average resident of Gaza was about 1 year old at the time. This conflict did not start yesterday. The Gazan population does not trust the international community to protect their right to return and they sure don't trust the Israelis.
You can't carpet bomb civilians then blame a country for not accepting 2 million refugees. Leveling the sector with air strikes is not a requirement.
Once again, the continuous bombing is a military choice by Israel. It's because they don't want to fight on the ground and value Palestinian civilian lives infinitely less than they value the lives of their own soldiers.
If that's what you got from what I said then you're deliberately being obtuse. Even if you evacuate 1.5 million civilians to Egypt what do you do with the 500k that stay? Are they alright to kill because they chose to remain in their homes?
I've left my home country due to the deteriorating situation from events indirectly caused by this conflict so I guess that's my "agenda". I am against the collective displacement AND collective punishment of Palestinians and the further destabilization of the region as a sick form of "revenge".
Yes, civilians who want to leave should be able to. Does that change the reality of the situation? Does that make Egyptians willing to take in 2 million refugees because Israel is breaking international law? Does that save the lives of those who stay? Does that eradicate Hamas? Does that resolve the conflict equitably?
Spare me with your "agenda" accusations.
Bombing over 2000 children (so far) is not morally ambiguous. It's never justified. There are other means. If you don't believe that is the case then I urge you to reassess how you value the lives on each side of this conflict.
Right now, civilians don't have a choice to leave the warzone. That's intentional thaks to ~~Hamas~~, Netanyahu, ~~Egypt, Jordan, etc.~~
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Those who don't want to leave can stay, others shouldn't be forced to become meat shields in a war they didn't want.
If it was any other country your argument would be substantive. But we are talking about Israel and Palestine. Anyone who leaves will not be able to return. That's how it's always been. And for the Palestinians, their land is their existence. They will not give it up. They know the second they leave, it's been lost.
Funny thing - Israel did exactly what you're suggesting. They told Gazans to flee to Egypt via the Rafah Crossing, then Israel bombed the Rafah Crossing.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-bomb-rafah-crossing-to-egypt-after-telling-gazans-to-flee-through-it/
Uhm, in the article you linked there is only Hamas claiming there were bombings on Rafah Crossing. It doesn't have any proof or source that is showing the bombings did indeed happen.
Civilians taking refuge away from a warzone is how the Jewish Diaspora began.
At least I'm not arguing in favor of the warzone.
@rivermonster most of them are not vocal about it right now. Many of them have normalised relations with Israel in the last few years.
They also hold the belief that allowing Israel to chase all the Palestinians out of Palestine and grab the land would be the end of the Two State Solution, turning the latter into permanent refugees.
In practical terms given Israel's blockades the only country in a position to take them is Egypt.
Egypt already hosts 9 million refugees, taking another 2 million would be politically unpopular with voters.
Egypt is also afraid of ending up in a border war with Israel (which would happen if any of the new refugees attacked Israel).
Egypt also wants the Two State Solution
Here is an article that might interest you: Why Egypt Won't Open The Border To Its Palestinian Neighbours
@rivermonster I always wonder whether people who want "Arab nations" to take in more refugees are also petitioning their own representatives to take in more themselves.
Pretty much all the biggest refugee-hosting nations are poorer nations.
Nevertheless, this article might give you food for thought: The Growing Significance Of Malaysia and Indonesia's Non-recognition of Israel.
@rivermonster yeah that's getting really bad lately.
I'm in New Zealand and I want more refugees from everywhere, including Palestine. It's frustrating.
Turns out Children of Men is the most prophetic sci fi.
@rivermonster to be fair to the US it didn't actually sign the UN convention on refugees that the rest of the West signed. But I still share your frustration.
I wish we could all work together on this stuff. Instead we have had some shining examples recently of how countries who do take people from warzones get left to take a huge hit, like poor Bangladesh struggling alone to administer Coxs Bazar (the biggest refugee camp in the world, now home to the Rohingya), or the Kurds who bizarrely were left trying to feed and shelter surrendered ISIS fighters from all over the world.
Realistically a governments first responsibility before anything else is the physical safety of it's citizenship.
If you know a percentage of a population are religious extremists which will never integrate into your society and will probably pose a risk, then how can you, as a government, take them in?
It's a hard sell any way you slice it.
The people who will leave Gaza are never gonna be let back in. The neighboring Arabic countries already have lots of Palestinian refugees.
If that's the attitude of everyone the whole world will be colonized and subjugated by imperialists. There will be a point where you cannot run anymore. Let me ask you a question, what would you do if this happened to you?
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Because the neighboring countries did that in the past in various forms and it fucked them all up in some manner. These are not normal people. They're twisted by decades of living under war or terrorist rule. Their population is so young because everyone old died that half the people alive never actually experienced a stable life. They know nothing but this. As a result they are really hard to integrate.
Because then they risk becoming the target of what Israel buys with the 50 billion dollars Joe Biden just sent to them.
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