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So Hamas is basically on their last legs here and we are letting them negotiate their way out ?

Probably the only realistic recourse is to destroy them. We will just be doing this same thing in 10 years.
 
So Hamas is basically on their last legs here and we are letting them negotiate their way out ?

Probably the only realistic recourse is to destroy them. We will just be doing this same thing in 10 years.
I read somewhere that in the Israeli military it’s known as mowing the lawn. They have seen the same cycle play out too many times.
 
I read somewhere that in the Israeli military it’s known as mowing the lawn. They have seen the same cycle play out too many times.

Love this - I'd change it to pulling the weeds. Seems more appropo for the enemy we are facing.
 
Hard to learn when the blow up all your schools and kill all your teachers and parents.
Okay. Pretend a terrorist group just ran across the border, kidnapped a young lady in your family, killed the people around her, then raped her, publicly tortured her, paraded her down the street to the cheers of citizens, and put a bullet through her brain. Then they hid under or in a school and kept kids hostages, or under a hospital and didn’t allow people to leave. You learn they have more young ladies undergoing the same, brutal, rape and torture. Endlessly.

But you don’t want to hurt the innocents, so you don’t attack them.

So they do it again, and again, and again. They scream to everyone who will listen that their only goal in life is to genocide you and everyone like you.

What’s your solution? Let them keep doing it over and over and over until we all feel that pain, rage, and heartbreak of seeing someone we love treated that way?

Don’t give me something g about negotiating, or educating, or putting pressure on their allies, or some embargo. Because at the end of the day, they don’t care what you say, and they know you don’t have the resolve to crush them in any way that hurts others.

Being nice and peaceful is a fine thing, as long as you have someone on your side who is prepared and willing to not be nice and peaceful.
 
Okay. Pretend a terrorist group just ran across the border, kidnapped a young lady in your family, killed the people around her, then raped her, publicly tortured her, paraded her down the street to the cheers of citizens, and put a bullet through her brain. Then they hid under or in a school and kept kids hostages, or under a hospital and didn’t allow people to leave. You learn they have more young ladies undergoing the same, brutal, rape and torture. Endlessly.

But you don’t want to hurt the innocents, so you don’t attack them.

So they do it again, and again, and again. They scream to everyone who will listen that their only goal in life is to genocide you and everyone like you.

What’s your solution? Let them keep doing it over and over and over until we all feel that pain, rage, and heartbreak of seeing someone we love treated that way?

Don’t give me something g about negotiating, or educating, or putting pressure on their allies, or some embargo. Because at the end of the day, they don’t care what you say, and they know you don’t have the resolve to crush them in any way that hurts others.

Being nice and peaceful is a fine thing, as long as you have someone on your side who is prepared and willing to not be nice and peaceful.
I think my core problem here is that the solution falls somewhere between doing nothing and killing 60,000 people. Shockingly I don't have a workable solution for solving the one of the biggest geopolitical puzzles in history, but I think there’s simply a point where the discrepancy in casualties can’t be ignored and we’re well past it.
 
I think my core problem here is that the solution falls somewhere between doing nothing and killing 60,000 people. Shockingly I don't have a workable solution for solving the one of the biggest geopolitical puzzles in history, but I think there’s simply a point where the discrepancy in casualties can’t be ignored and we’re well past it.
The point with you was any retaliation. Let’s be serious. The death toll could have been 5k and you would be coming back with he same loser response
 
It’s not. All those folks need to learn is right in front of them.

I’ve had dogs that never went to school that learned not to cross the invisible fence.

They aren’t helpless.

Whatever excuses you want to make is fine but Oct 7 happened and it was a choice made by Palestinians. No one’s made them keep hostages for two years and there’s only one party wanting to settle for a two state solution and it’s not the people of Gaza.

They are an intolerant people and it’s not gonna last. If you say you don’t like genocide you must really hate the Palestinians, bc that’s exactly what they want to do.

The only reason this is still going is they won’t lay down their weapons. It’s on them- and has been a long time
 
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The point with you was any retaliation. Let’s be serious. The death toll could have been 5k and you would be coming back with he same loser response
That your already high number is less than a 10th of what happened, I find this moot.
 
The number I quoted is irrelevant. The fact is ANY number is too much and we all know it.
It’s not though? I’m not proposing pacifism here. But leveling an entire city and killing tens of thousands of people is what they actually did, and what I’m here to discuss.
 
It’s not though? I’m not proposing pacifism here. But leveling an entire city and killing tens of thousands of people is what they actually did, and what I’m here to discuss.
When you fight an enemy that purposefully hides behind women and children to get responses from squishy people like you then this is the option.
 
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