You only have to look at the maps of Israel in 1948 and Israel today to see that the Zionists have won every battle and that Lebensraum has been militarily achieved. (I use these highlighted words not as abuse but as accurate terminology). Hamas did not exist before 1987 – there was 40 years of Arab/Israeli conflict before that.
That Israel has always had settlement ambitions way beyond its original borders is not in dispute. And nor is the fact that the victims of these ambitions are mainly the Palestinian people. To the victors have gone the spoils, as they always do. Let’s be clear. It’s not just Hamas that has been defeated but the people of Palestine. Thousands of them dead, their homes destroyed, their future obliterated.
In 1945 the Allied nations who destroyed Hitler and Hirohito said “never again” and lead the reconstruction. The Soviet Union did it differently from the United States and Britain, but it happened. At the end of the war Hamburg and Dresden, Tokyo and Hiroshima looked very like Gaza does now. Does Israel want, would it permit, the reconstruction of Gaza as a Palestinian state? What do you think?
The Hamas terrorism of October 7th was Israel’s casus belli for destroying not (just) an armed enemy but also a nascent state that it doesn’t want as a neighbour. In short whilst Hamas presumably knows that it has been defeated there are over five million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who are understandably concerned that Israel holds their future in their hands.
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PaddyThose maps are truly shocking. I despair for the Palestinianpeople. I also don’t believe in this Trump-negotiated cease-fire. It’s a PR exerciseto strengthen Trump’s global image. The world must never forget Israel’s appalling crimes. Hamas,either, but Israel’s response to the attack was totally out of proportion. Intruth, until Hamas and this far-right Israeli government are gone, peace in anytrue form will never become a reality.
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