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I wonder if any war has ever had so much propaganda coming from both sides? I too have not taken a side, because both sides appear to me equally unsympathetic. That said, I appreciated this nuanced and honest take.

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Unpopular opinion, but I suspect we'll see Israel try to steamroll through Gaza betting they can manage the consequences, probably because in the age of social media, the ability to hold grasp on European and American public opinion given changes in propaganda, overall mean impoverization, and demographic shifts is gone. If they intend to try to take from the river to the sea, this administration over there sees their survival in that victory, the internal anger is present, and frankly, the mess of world relationships is allowing many countries (look at Azerbaijan, for example) to take their shot at expansionism.

The Arab nations there won't like it, but they aren't stopping it either. And the Palestinians are, as ever, without help. Israel will win that battle, but they might just lose the war.

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"If I'm going to take joy in an enemy's death, I'd like to know first why he's my enemy. Lacking that knowledge, I chose to remain silent."

Wise! That is my favorite line. People always want their enemy to be your enemy, and they say things like "silence is complicity..." that kind of thinking is disingenuous at best and evil at worst.

I found Ted's prayer to be a bit ironic. You can't abandon God and then ask where he has gone...

Thank you for the thought provoking read brother 🙏

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The land belongs to who can hold it. So why the hand wringing over Israel's efforts to hold it?

There will be an end to bloodshed when Hamas and it's spirit are destroyed, the sooner the better.

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Great analysis of the situation. The one-state solution is the most likely outcome, but it’s probably a few decades away and will be something along the lines of Iraq: autonomous ethnic homelands within a federal state focused on only the most essential and intractable issues.

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Thanks for your well balanced post !!

Zionism, Eretz Israel and their wet-dream of global governance of Goyims out of Jerusalem is a huge road-block for a peaceful future togetherness of the two fiercely opposing cultures, especially so after the latest atrocities committed by both sides.

Zionists are not shy of proclaiming absolute superiority over the planet; how can you fairly deal with this kind of opponent without being utterly crushed before doing the 1st. step ? It's unfair right from the start.

I saw vids of Zionists urinating on dead Palestinians, kicking the naked corpse several times, standing on it, throwing blind-folded men into a dug-out ditch in a narrow street, shooting them in their heads once they fell to the bottom, not to mention the vids pouring out from Gaza during the last 5 months, etc. It hardly can get any more graphic. Their hatred and despise for anything non "themselves" cannot be described.

The Zionist entity is superbly able to deceive and control minds worldwide; they are formidable psychologists.

Let us see what happens in Rafah once Egypt's Abd-Al-Fattah Al-Sisi finishes the new concrete-walled enclosure at the southern border (ev. the new open-air prison on Egyptian territory) ...

Old maps before 14.05.48 without any exemption mention Palestine ...

Jews always were a minority in that region and did not have any influence before the 8th. century ...

and they are scared to hell about the prolific genuine Semitic Palestinian wombs ...

The Brits and their mandate ... overreaching when "granting" land ...

Rothschild and Balfour to make the US enter WW1 ...

It's a huge pile of lies and deception, to continue for years to come, unless, who knows ...

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