• skozzii@lemmy.ca
    22 days

    One side is far more powerful and commiting genocide, the other is poor and simply trying to survive. Currently it is not complex at all.

    My initial position after those first attacks from Hamas were Isreal has the right to defend itself, but what has happened since then is so far beyond the scope of what is acceptable, it is horrible.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      21 days

      There’s a deeper level to it. Israel, especially netanyahu over his long career, created the entire situation. And they did it directly and intentionally

      Palestine used to be governed by the PLA. Hamas are hardliners - their founding goal was to turn the region against Israel and drive out the Israeli people. Hardliners are the least effective form of any movement

      Israel held elections for Palestinians, giving them an official group to negotiate with, as well as some legal recognition that allows them to collect funds

      As soon as Hamas won a single election, they stopped holding elections and the PLA leaders were assassinated soon after

      Not to mention the on again off again attacks… Israel would build them infrastructure like hospitals and desalinization plants, then blow them up

      There’s a lot to say on the topic, so I’ll end it with a fact that really puts things in contrast…

      Before October 11, the average age in Gaza was under 18, and it isn’t like their population numbers were booming

      • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
        21 days

        Lust for power and wanting to be godlike is pretty surface level. Nothing too deep there. Same-old, same-old throughout history.

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          6 days

          There’s a lot more to it than that… It’s a complicated situation primarily motivated by a lust for power and profit, but there’s layers and layers to it. There’s many involved interests and much to learn about how and why horrible things are happening

          It’s easy to point to a war criminal and just label them as evil, but then you learn nothing useful

          No one is evil in their own story, and by understanding the motivations and methods of great acts of evil you can understand where to apply pressure to stop it, as well as recognizing these same patterns elsewhere before it ends in another example of the worst crime against humanity