I'm really struggling to understand what the benefit is to Israel to starve 1.1 million people to death. It would be a good way to turn the entire world against them. Not that anything might happen but there is always a chance it could cause some serious repercussions.
I think it would be a good idea to feed these people and not starve them to death. If you disagree with me and think they deserve to be starved to death, please let me know why. I would be interested to know your reasons....
It is sad, but Hamas leaders may just regard all this as a worthwhile sacrifice for their greater cause of Palestinian liberation.
> History has shown that Palestinian lives mean nothing to the Arab world.
They do care. They talk about it every day. They sponsor a good part of the aid. Not letting Gazans out is mostly because Israel may not allow them back in again.
I'm not saying palestinians are a priority to the Arab leaders. They are just doing what is safe for themselves. So no wars or economic blockades. Actually, the Houthis and Hezbollah are doing just that, and they are labeled as terrorists for it.
> What the benefit is to Israel to starve 1.1 million people to death. It would be a good way to turn the entire world against them.
The EU foreign policy chief and the UN said it simply: "It is probably used as a weapon of war." If what Israel had already done did not turn the entire world against them, why do you (or why would they) think this will? Because of the horrors of 7/10, Israel now believes it has carte blanche. It was bad before, but now almost all limits are off.
Never thought of that...
I really hope those people get food, it would be a shame for Israel to become the moral twin of the NAZI.
> It's interesting to me what the Hamas government thought was going to happen when they decided to attack Israel.
My theory is that they thought Israel would retaliate as they did, but then the International order would kick in, order a ceasefire and they could negotiate a deal using the hostages as leverage. I don’t think they thought that the international response would be as lackluster as we have seen (even the Bush admin did not veto a ceasefire resolution in 2008 like the Biden admin has done now 3 times).
We have to keep in mind that most (all?) Hamas members have family members who are starving and suffering. I very much doubt that they want that to continue.
Now the important point is when it's all over, Netanyahu is kicked out and the new Israeli government will work hard to prevent anything from growing back in Gaza. If the coward Netanyahu stays, everything will come back to the same old "Concept" and Hamas will be back (it's already happening, the port they are building). Netanyahu needs Hamas and Hamas needs Netanyahu.
Meanwhile food spoils in the line of trucks blocked outside the apartheid wall.
Where is your humanity?
