Purple_Fronds
Later Meiosis
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2022
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I think we can safely assume that Israel politics have been going through a hardline and a more intransigent period for some time. This is born out through their recent elections, their posture on settlements and many other stances they’ve taken irrespective of criticism they’ve received both domestically and internationally. What of course helps the Israel hardliners is that a lot of the international criticism comes from Europe which still suffers with significant ant-semitism and has a very shaky moral ground already.
The problem with the Israel government’s current strategy is that there’s no end game, the numbers are just not in their favor and what ever people’s position around the world is, most people have a thought on the total number of deaths that would trigger a response of going to far. Maybe there is no consensus of what the acceptable ratio of Palestinian deaths to Israeli deaths is, but we’re approaching 20 to 1. However, even at 50 thousand Palestinian deaths, which is a similar number to what the US lost in the Vietnam conflict was deemed ok by the rest of the world, this is still a drop in the bucket of the 2.2 million Palestinians that live in Gaza.
In terms of WW2 and the notion that somehow faster action was possible I think is incorrect, Germany was still a significant force to be reckoned with and although they might have been economically ruined, their industrial output was still formidable especially as all the fighting in ww1 had took place on other people‘s land. In short even if there was a desire for Britain and France to rush into war, it is very unlikely they would have been successful.
The problem with the Israel government’s current strategy is that there’s no end game, the numbers are just not in their favor and what ever people’s position around the world is, most people have a thought on the total number of deaths that would trigger a response of going to far. Maybe there is no consensus of what the acceptable ratio of Palestinian deaths to Israeli deaths is, but we’re approaching 20 to 1. However, even at 50 thousand Palestinian deaths, which is a similar number to what the US lost in the Vietnam conflict was deemed ok by the rest of the world, this is still a drop in the bucket of the 2.2 million Palestinians that live in Gaza.
In terms of WW2 and the notion that somehow faster action was possible I think is incorrect, Germany was still a significant force to be reckoned with and although they might have been economically ruined, their industrial output was still formidable especially as all the fighting in ww1 had took place on other people‘s land. In short even if there was a desire for Britain and France to rush into war, it is very unlikely they would have been successful.