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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/590118

During a video address directed at the people of Lebanon, Netanyahu said: "You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.

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[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee -4 points 1 month ago

First, why would it have to start with Israel and not both sides? Don't forget that Hamas tried to tank the Oslo accords with a series of suicide attacks in the mid-90's.

And why wouldn't a one state solution be an option for peace, given time? A lot of Arab nations were already moving towards normalisation with Israel. Which is why Hamas and Hezbollah need to stoke the fire every once in a while.

I'm reading interviews with Hamas militants who want their children to continue their fight to return to the village that their own grandparents were chased out of (within the 1948 jewish-allocated borders no less). As in: return to the village that these kids' great-grandparents had lived in. And failing that, probably go on to move back to the villages of their great-great-greatparents?

At a certain point there's limitations on the links between generations and whether they want to spend their lives trying to right the wrongs done to their ancestors that they didn't even know themselves, or to go on with their lives in the present. There aren't, for example, that many African-American slave descendants still trying to reclaim their ancestors' tribes' lands in Africa, or native Americans (north and south) trying to push all the immigrants since the late 1400s back into the sea. History and humanity move on.