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Originally Posted by RainMaker
What were they supposed to do? Not being sparky, just what were their options?
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Be honest with the outside world that they have no interest in a one state solution, and honest with themselves that they keep getting smoked in any real military conflict so they should either try to actually get along, leave, or accept being 2nd class citizens if they had too much pride and too little sense to do either? Israel isn't exactly beloved by world opinion, but indiscriminately launching rockets at a wide range of civilian targets and kidnapping old ladies and dual national civilians then celebrating it on video has basically given Israel an opening to turn the Gaza strip and into a new Grozny or Bakhmut if they want, and it sounds like they might do it. The lack of any support I've seen from the West Bank or northern border areas sure makes it look like the fate of the 2 million people in the Gaza strip are at the mercy of however far Netanyahu wants to take it. They ceded any pretension of having the moral high ground and I don't see a single potential ally who can exert pressure on Bibi more than the internal political pressure will be to destroy things.